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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/7/11, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi>:
> 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.

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