avutil_version() currently performs several checks before
just returning the version. There is a static int that aims
to ensure that these tests are run only once. The reason is that
there used to be a slightly expensive check, but it has been removed
in 92e3a6fdac73f7e1d69d69717219a7538877d7a0. Today running only
once is unnecessary and can be counterproductive: GCC 10 optimizes
all the actual checks away, but the checks_done variable and the code
setting it has been kept. Given that this check is inherently racy
(it uses non-atomic variables), it is best to just remove it.
Reviewed-by: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
(cherry picked from commit ff800903747325f15056444c11053279e391d60b)
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