[MPlayer-dev-eng] libvo changes

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Mon Apr 7 14:05:32 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 05:04 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:31:10AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 01:09 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Its not easy to write clean looking code that breaks gcc 2.95, it was
> > > hard enough to hide it behind this macro.
> > 
> > Why would that have broken gcc 2.95? I'm not aware of a bug it would've
> > triggered, 
> 
> Well, I remember some quite similar looking code of yours which broke
> gcc 2.95, IIRC it caused some issue ?segfault? at runtime.

In the only at all similar case (using compound literals) I remember gcc
2.95 apparently placed a non-const literal in the read-only section. At
least quite the same bug could not have triggered here.




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