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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:54:30AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> if build system is demanding I guess probably could be possible split
> the -march tables in some way.

What I'd like is a way to remove them. I never use anything but
-march=386 and don't want them wasting space and build time. If I
specify the target arch as i386, why does gcc insist on including
code for building 586/686/athlon/p4/etc. stuff?

Rich