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

[Luca Barbato]

Attila Kinali wrote:
> 
> 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. 

gcc-4.1.1 has fewer bugs than gcc-2.95, supports more arches, has less
issues with asm constraints and so on...

> 
> 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.
> 

I'd require C89 variable declaration since the code is simpler to follow
that way.

lu

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Luca Barbato

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