[MPlayer-users] Mplayer BUG Athlon

[Krister Lagerstrom]

Marc-Tell Volkmann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 07:36 schrieb Dean S. Messing:
> 
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>
>> :: > Hello,
>> :: > here is my BUG-Report:
>> :: >
>> :: > since I have changed to a new mainboard (K7S5A) + ATHLON XP2200+ CPU
>> :: > I can't start mplayer anymore.  I have it compiled with
>> :: > mmx,3dnow,... without mmx,...  but nothing happened. I think it is a
>> :: > bug in your code. For more detailes please tell me, what can I do.
>> :: >
>> :: > I have trouble with playing ANY video (avi,mpg,...)  mplayer was
>> :: > compiled on the same Computer were it run!
>> ::
>> :: There is definitely something screwy regarding Athlons in the mplayer
>> :: codebase.  For quite a while alternating releases would waver between
>> :: compiling and running okay and not compiling at all.
>>
>>I was getting the infamous
>>
>>     postprocess_template.c:2910: can't find a register in
>>         class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'
>>
>>error when I first started trying to build MPlayer on my Athlon system
>>back in early December.
>>
>>This was using gcc 3.2.  I finally "fixed" the problem by
>>recompiling the compiler for my Athlon system.
>>After that I've had no problems compiling MPlayer.  But I must
>>admit, I've only built three versions since then.
>>
> 
> 
> O.K. this is an other try. I get the src.rpm of the GCC3.2 Compiler an make a 
> rebuild of them with athlon optimisations.
> I tell it, when it done.

Check out the release notes for GCC:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/changes.html#3.2.2

Seems to be worth to upgrade if you suspect any problems lie in the
compiler.

		/ Krister