[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fixing the GCC-3.3 and scale code mess

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 14:13, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hello,
> We're getting more and more messages about the code I broke
> unwillingly to support GCC-4.0. I'd much better be able to reply "use
> current CVS" than explaining what has gone wrong and why it may take
> some time until it's fixed.
>
> Can I revert my patch so that GCC-3.3 (used by a large crowd of users)
> works and GCC-4.0 (used only by bleeding edge users using FC4 or
> ubuntu breezy) [unfortunately] doesn't?

yes


>
> That way, this leaves us some time to think about a good fix to
> support all GCC version, if possible.
>
> What do you think?

gcc sucks, and we probably need some automated way to test if the code works 
with several gcc versions, something with -vo md5 maybe, or maybe 
postproc/swscale-example.c 

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Michael