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

[Rich Felker]

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

And amusingly it does not build. Or at least not without 2 gigs of
vm for all the useless -march data tables. I've tried on multiple
occasions to give gcc versions > 2.95 a FAIR CHANCE to demonstrate
their worth, and every time they have failed miserably.

Rich