[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Drop support for gcc-2.95

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:53:38 +0300
Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:

> The gcc 2 branch has been dead upstream for a long time. Supporting it
> requires frequent workarounds especially for variable declarations. 

Workarounds? I only remember one workaround because of
a bug in 2.95, but that was in an asm section. C89 style variable
declarations are hardly a workaround.

> The arguments I've heard for keeping gcc-2.95 support are that it
> compiles faster (though the resulting code is slower on most platforms),
> and that some platforms might not have support for newer versions.

You forget another argument: 2.95 has fewer bugs than 3.x or 4.x,
thus whenever someone suspects a gcc bug, first thing they
do is to compile it with 2.95. 

IMHO it's no big deal to keep 2.95 support. Just need
the awarenes that some C99 constructs are not allowed.
Thus i'm against to remove support for it.


				Attila Kinali

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