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

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hi,
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:20:06AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Attila Kinali wrote:
> > 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.

Not to mention that it is more like what the compiler produces anyway.
And to support the "code is simpler to follow" argument, you know where
to look what type a variable has instead of having to search the whole
code block. Of course, the real "bug" is that there are such large code
blocks, but that won't change anytime soon.
So overall at least in this case supporting gcc 2.95 actually seems like
a good idea.
And btw. every release is tested against gcc 2.95 as long as I still
have that HP-UX account, only that gcc version is installed there.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger