[Bug middle-end/29440] 4.2 20061007 experimental misscompiles libavcodec/h264.o

[poirierg at gmail dot com]

------- Comment #6 from poirierg at gmail dot com  2006-10-12 15:03 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Does it work when compiled with -O0 instead of -O4?  How about -O1?
> > 
> > Besies above, I noticed that the asm in get_cabac looks to be clobbering memory
> > but is not marked as such.
> > 
> 
> Andrew, this testcase violates aliasing rules.
> 
> h264.c: In function 'filter_mb_fast':
> h264.c:7074: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
>                       strict-aliasing rules

For what it's worth, the code around line 7074 compiled correctly with snapshot
4.2-20060909 and has been in FFmpeg since Mon Aug 28 09:33:01 2006 UTC, so IMHO
it shouldn't be the cause of the problem I'm reporting today.

However, if you have a suggestion to improve this code, I'm all ears

Guillaume


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