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

[Luca Barbato]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:54:10PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:05 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>
>>> 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 ...
>> The cost of avoiding them is higher than just the lost usefulness. Once
>> you get used to them in other code it's natural to write them quite
>> frequently, and they appear in patches, so avoiding them requires
>> several changes to code.
> 
> It's not natural to write them unless you just learned C a year or two
> ago or unless you're a C++ coder. In any case allowing them is totally
> out of the question until you supply a patch to make gcc 2.95 compile
> them and as far as I'm concerned it should be out of the question
> forever.

I'm more for puting the out of question.

Mixing vars in the code is just a pain to debug/improve it later.

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Luca Barbato

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