[MPlayer-dev-eng] -mieee CFLAG missing on alpha (patch included)

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:43:54PM -0500, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:55:03PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> >>I don't think that any dev has access to such a [splendid kick-ass ]
> >>machine, so unless someone strongly disagrees, I'm gonna trust you
> >>Thomas that it works, and commit smth similar to CVS during the week.
> >
> >I disagree. It may work, but it is the wrong way to fix it. The problem
> >here probably is a division by zero that should be fixed in CVS already.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I use Alpha, and MP3s work fine on it.  It may have been fixed 
> in CVS.  I don't remember when it got fixed, but I recall that I 
> was involved in the patch.
> 
> Anyways, -mieee should *NOT* be used for CFLAGS.  I believe that 
> it produces slower code (anybody know for sure?), which is a bad 
> idea for processor-intensive programs.

And especially for slow cpus like alpha...

Rich