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

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Roberto Togni wrote:

> 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. The
>> repository has already not compiled with gcc-2.95 for nearly 3 weeks and
>
> Since the only requirement to support gcc 2.95 is avoiding mixing
> code and declarations I'm against dropping support for it. It does not
> introduce any functional limitation in the code.

Other requirement: no more than 10 parameters to an asm block. And yes, I 
have had to re-write code to get around that limitation. And gcc does 
funny things to asm blocks that are split up, so sometimes that lost some 
speed.

--Loren Merritt