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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:58:04AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 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.
> 
> like?

yes, id like to know that too ...

* mixing declarations and code, seems few really want that, my oppinion here
  is it might be nice in some cases but its not enough to drop support for a
  compiler ...
* 10 params asms (we also would have to drop support for several other gcc 
  versions)
* intrinsics, well gcc until 4.? generated terribly bad code for intrinsics
* some gnu stuff which would make mplayer no longer comple on iso-c compilers

anything else?

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