Bug#591904: libavcodec52: text relocations on AMD64

[Reinhard Tartler]

severity 591904 minor
thanks

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 08:20:57 (EDT), Russell Coker wrote:

> Package: libavcodec52
> Version: 4:0.5.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> $ eu-findtextrel /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52|uniq
> either the file containing the function 'ff_vp6_filter_diag4_sse2' or the file containing the function 'ff_imdct_half_3dn' is not compiled with -fpic/-fPIC
>
> The above functions contain inline assembly.  On the AMD64 architecture it
> should be possible to rewrite this to not need a text relocation as we have
> no great shortage of registers.

Patches welcome, please see http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html for
detailed guidelines.

Just a bit of a warning, espc. the assembler parts are written by
experts with a very strong opinion.
-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4