Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#2610 closed defect (wontfix)

Visual Studio 2012 linker errors with /GL /LTCG

Reported by: Steve Rothkin Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: undetermined
Version: git-master Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Summary of the bug:

How to reproduce:

Configure and build in MSYS with
    ./configure --toolchain=msvc --cpu=i686 --arch=i686 --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-programs --disable-doc  --disable-swresample --disable-postproc  --disable-zlib --disable-bzlib --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-ldflags="-DEBUG -INCREMENTAL:NO -OPT:REF" --optflags="-Zi -O2 -Oy-" --extra-cflags="-I/m -MD"

Linker will report errors like _ff_get_cpu_flags_ppc is not defined.

The problem is caused by source code lines like

if (ARCH_PPC) flags = ff_get_cpu_flags_ppc();

which refer to functions that aren't part of the build because they are configured out.

It seems that many compilers (including Visual Studio when not using whole program compilation and link-time optimization) recognize that the above statement is dead code and optimize it out during compile. But the Visual Studio compiler apparently leaves it in when /GL (whole program optimization) is enabled.

The solution is to change all of these blocks of code to look like this:

#if (ARCH_PPC)

flags = ff_get_cpu_flags_ppc();

#endif

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 11 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Dead-code elimination is necessary for FFmpeg compilation.

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