Linkers, assisted by a compiler, can optimize out the string that is being

used to test for endianness. Prevent the linker from optimizing out the
string, as it is being returned.
patch by Derek E. Lewis, dlewis^#@^#solnetworks^#.^#net


git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@18477 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6e916cd011..afe6bcbd57 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6790,8 +6790,7 @@ if test "$_big_endian" = auto ; then
 short ascii_name[] = { (('M'<<8)|'P'),(('l'<<8)|'a'),(('y'<<8)|'e'),(('r'<<8)|'B'),
                       (('i'<<8)|'g'),(('E'<<8)|'n'),(('d'<<8)|'i'),(('a'<<8)|'n'),0};
 int main(){
-  char* s = (char*)ascii_name;
-  return 0;
+  return (int)ascii_name;
 } 
 EOF
   if cc_check ; then