On Wed, 27 Jul 2022, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 7:39 PM James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/27/2022 2:34 PM, Swinney, Jonathan wrote:
I recognize that this patch is going to be somewhat controversial. I'm 
submitting it mostly to see what the opinions are and evaluate options. I am 
working on improving performance for aarch64. On that architecture, there are 
fewer hand written assembly implementations of hot functions than there are for 
x86_64 and allowing gcc to auto-vectorize yields noticeable improvements.

Gcc vectorization has improved recently and it hasn't been evaluated on the 
mailing list for a few years. This is the latest discussion I found in my 
searches: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-May/193977.html

Every time this was done, it was inevitably reverted after complains and
crash reports started piling up because gcc can't really handle all the
inline code our codebase has, among other things.


No need to wait for issues, I just tested, and the same issues still
persist that have existed for years with GCC now. They don't seem to
care to make it compatible with inline asm, which might be fair
enough, but it means it just can't work here.

In file included from libavcodec/cabac_functions.h:49,
                from libavcodec/h264_cabac.c:36:
libavcodec/h264_cabac.c: In function 'ff_h264_decode_mb_cabac':
libavcodec/x86/cabac.h:199:5: error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints

This particular bit of inline assembly has historically been very problematic in many configurations (although primarily on i386 I think) - see e.g. 8990c5869e27fcd43b53045f87ba251f42e7d293. Would something like that be enough for that build configuration to succeed, or are there many other cases that break?

// Martin

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