configure: drop yasm support

We started defauling to nasm 8 years ago.
We are still compatible with yasm 0.8.0, released in 2009. **15 years ago**.
The time has more than come to remove support for it.

Maintaining compatibility started cutting into writing new code long ago.
We still can't have 2-argument instructions, preprocessor booleans, and all
AVX2 code must still be wrapped in ifdefs. Newly added code often breaks this.
pull/153/merge
Lynne 1 month ago
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  1. 1
      Changelog
  2. 21
      configure
  3. 2
      doc/developer.texi
  4. 4
      doc/optimization.txt
  5. 4
      doc/platform.texi

@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
version <next>:
- yasm support dropped, users need to use nasm
version 7.1:
- Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption demuxer

21
configure vendored

@ -4415,16 +4415,6 @@ for opt do
test $action = enable && warn_if_gets_disabled $list
$action $list
;;
--enable-yasm|--disable-yasm)
warn "The ${opt} option is only provided for compatibility and will be\n"\
"removed in the future. Use --enable-x86asm / --disable-x86asm instead."
test $opt = --enable-yasm && x86asm=yes || x86asm=no
;;
--yasmexe=*)
warn "The --yasmexe option is only provided for compatibility and will be\n"\
"removed in the future. Use --x86asmexe instead."
x86asmexe="$optval"
;;
--enable-?*|--disable-?*)
eval $(echo "$opt" | sed 's/--/action=/;s/-/ option=/;s/-/_/g')
if is_in $option $COMPONENT_LIST; then
@ -6445,26 +6435,19 @@ EOF
x86asmexe_probe=$1
if test_cmd $x86asmexe_probe -v; then
x86asmexe=$x86asmexe_probe
x86asm_type=nasm
x86asm_debug="-g -F dwarf"
X86ASMDEP=
X86ASM_DEPFLAGS='-MD $(@:.o=.d)'
elif test_cmd $x86asmexe_probe --version; then
x86asmexe=$x86asmexe_probe
x86asm_type=yasm
x86asm_debug="-g dwarf2"
X86ASMDEP='$(DEPX86ASM) $(X86ASMFLAGS) -M $(X86ASM_O) $< > $(@:.o=.d)'
X86ASM_DEPFLAGS=
fi
check_x86asm x86asm "movbe ecx, [5]"
}
if ! disabled_any asm mmx x86asm; then
disable x86asm
for program in $x86asmexe nasm yasm; do
for program in $x86asmexe nasm; do
probe_x86asm $program && break
done
disabled x86asm && die "nasm/yasm not found or too old. Use --disable-x86asm for a crippled build."
disabled x86asm && die "nasm not found or too old. Use --disable-x86asm for a crippled build."
X86ASMFLAGS="-f $objformat"
test -n "$extern_prefix" && append X86ASMFLAGS "-DPREFIX"
case "$objformat" in

@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ filters, bitstream filters, parsers. If its not possible to do that, add
an explanation why to your patchset, its ok to not test if theres a reason.
@item
If you added YASM code please check that things still work with --disable-yasm.
If you added NASM code please check that things still work with --disable-x86asm.
@item
Test your code with valgrind and or Address Sanitizer to ensure it's free

@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Code that depends on data in registries being untouched, should be written as
a single __asm__() statement. Ideally, a single function contains only one
__asm__() block.
Use external asm (nasm/yasm) or inline asm (__asm__()), do not use intrinsics.
Use external asm (nasm) or inline asm (__asm__()), do not use intrinsics.
The latter requires a good optimizing compiler which gcc is not.
When debugging a x86 external asm compilation issue, if lost in the macro
@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ actual lines causing issues.
Inline asm vs. external asm
---------------------------
Both inline asm (__asm__("..") in a .c file, handled by a compiler such as gcc)
and external asm (.s or .asm files, handled by an assembler such as nasm/yasm)
and external asm (.s or .asm files, handled by an assembler such as nasm)
are accepted in FFmpeg. Which one to use differs per specific case.
- if your code is intended to be inlined in a C function, inline asm is always

@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ You will need the following prerequisites:
To set up a proper environment in MSYS2, you need to run @code{msys_shell.bat} from
the Visual Studio or Intel Compiler command prompt.
Place @code{yasm.exe} somewhere in your @code{PATH}.
Place @code{nasm.exe} somewhere in your @code{PATH}.
Next, make sure any other headers and libs you want to use, such as zlib, are
located in a spot that the compiler can see. Do so by modifying the @code{LIB}
@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ These library packages are only available from
@uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/, Cygwin Ports}:
@example
yasm, libSDL-devel, libgsm-devel, libmp3lame-devel,
libSDL-devel, libgsm-devel, libmp3lame-devel,
speex-devel, libtheora-devel, libxvidcore-devel
@end example

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