[MPlayer-dev-eng] [ANNOUNCE] MPlayer prerelease RPM packages available for testing

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Tue Apr 30 15:23:55 CEST 2002


On Tuesday, 30 April 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:07:25PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > > Well, it was compiled with gcc3-3.0.4, so you should have a matching
> > > > libgcc. Good to hear it works, though.
> > > 
> > > I've found the answer. It appears that only vidix requires libgcc. So
> > > if you don't install vidix, you don't actually need it.
> > 
> > what the hell is libgcc ?
> > and what functions are used from it?
> 
> IIRC, libgcc contains function calls to emulate some 64bit math as
> well as some exception-handling stuff that's mainly used for C++.

Exception handling? Since exceptions are only used in dshow loader, maybe
we could put -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti everywhere else (where g++ is used,
obviously).

[snip] 
> OK, end libgcc rant...

:-))

Do you know how it is done in gcc-3.1?

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>



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