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

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:36:36PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> The people expressing support for 2.95 so far seem to basically argue
> that it should be supported because support doesn't cost anything. While
> the cost of support is not huge it is not insignificant either. I think
> actively maintaining support for obsolete software would require better
> justification.

Well, the question is, which compilers do we support then? gcc 3.0-3.3 can't
be supported, they simply have too many bugs.
gcc 4.0 seemed to have some problems, too.
So that leaves gcc 4.1 and 3.4, with 4.1 hardly being well
tested, and AFAIK 3.4 still having the ocassional "can't find
register..." problem with asm code.
So my view is that
1) the cost for supporting 2.95 is really low (essentially building the
code with it from time to time and maybe 20 minutes to fix the problems)
2) I don't see an alternative compiler that (except for those
declarations) will compile MPlayer as reliably. IOW 2.95 is not obsolete
since it misses a suitable successor (for now the 4.1 series makes a
very good impression though).

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger