[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Partial port of ffmpeg to MS Visual C - and a note on the inttypes.h issue

[Steve Lhomme]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>>> Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>>> If you really want to be that gnucentric, 
>>>>> do you know why everyone who uses visual <bluescreen, restarts system) C++
>>>>> has a problem with understanding the different between standart and gcc?
>>>>> we HATE gcc and we certainly are not, where not and never will be
>>>>> gnucentric, ffmpeg code is stanard C, everything else is under #ifdefs
>>>>> like asm, always_inline and so on
>>>>>
>>>>> it must be something like
>>>>> * user sees vc++ fail with random program
>>>>> * user sees gcc to suceed with same random program
>>>>> * user concludes that program is written specifically for gcc as he knows
>>>>>  MS always follows all standards very carefully
>>>> Thats a great point here.
>>> It's like the difference between people who prefer to use C99 and the 
>>> ones who prefer to use a real-world compiler.
>>>
>>> Anyway, C99 doesn't cover inline ASM AFAIK so you can't seriously say 
>>> that FFMPEG is not designed for gcc.
>> you know very well that they are under #ifdefs (some of the other people
>> who claimed that ffmpeg where written for gcc may or may not have known that
>> but you do as you have worked with the code) so could you maybe spare
>> us from this trolling
>> if you want i can ask our root at mphq team to create a new mailing list
>> for random rants, trolling, flames and such ...
> 
> We could even have posts from certain individuals automatically
> redirected to that list...

As I'm leaving DivX tomorrow you will see me much less around here.

Steve