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

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 21:10 +0200, 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.

It is not the only requirement. It is the one that comes up often, in
code developers normally write and in patches people send us, and thus
has nontrivial cost even if the workaround in each individual case is
simple. There are other features in newer compilers that could be used
once support for gcc 2.95 is dropped.