Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following patch fixes this.
Are you sure that this is the only occurence of text relocations? TBH, I doubt that. I acknowledge that text relocations are a resonable concern, but the patch does not directly address them. It is not clear where the textrelocation actually happens, and for what purpose. A more maintainable approach to this matter would probably be to add --disable-mmx to ffmpeg's configure flags, which would in turn disable any usage of MMX code. As for the PIC/PIE discussion: Upstream is deliberatly compiling the code with PIC on i386, and maintains a list of architectures that require PIC to build shared objects. This is done for performance reasons. Now security is of course another interesting concern. TBH, If at all, we could build another variant of ffmpeg library packages like libavcodec-security or something. However given the current complexity of the ffmpeg package, I'm not that keen on implementing and maintaining this. All in all, I think this needs seriously more thought. The proposed patch is certainly not suitable for inclusion upstream, since it just disables handwritten optimized coded and as such I'm not willing to maintain that patch in the debian package. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
