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

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Tue Jul 11 07:56:57 CEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:48 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:32:29PM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I agree this is a stupid limitation and I'd welcome a patch to "fix"
> it in gcc 2.95; however it's also ridiculous that the gcc developers

How many people are there who would build a custom patched version of
gcc-2.95 for mplayer rather than use newer gcc?




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