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

[İsmail Dönmez]

Pazartesi 10 Temmuz 2006 09:04 tarihinde, Attila Kinali şunları yazmıştı: 
> 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.

This is only true for x86 32bit, and doesn't hold for any other arches. 

Regards,
ismail

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