Shawn Walker wrote:

> yasm is probably on the fringe of needed software. Most programs tend
> to use the C compiler's built in asm support to do what they need to.
> Though unfortunately, most of them use GNU syntax which makes life
> difficult.

you need yasm to build x264, and you need x264 if you want MPEG4 decoding. so, 
yasm is far from optional.

yasm assembler syntax is neither GNU as nor AT&T as, it's its own variant, only 
compatible with nasm.

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM


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