-Question: What is GCC 2.96 ? I can't find it at GNU site. +Question: What is GCC 2.96 ? I can't find it at the GNU site.
@@ -39,35 +39,35 @@
-And for the people, who periodically asks what are the exact problems with -gcc 2.96, my answer: we don't know exactly. +And for the people who periodically ask what the exact problems with +gcc 2.96 are, my answer: We don't know exactly. There were various problems and new problems / bugs come up periodically. -It is not a single bug/problem. We just see various bugreports, mostly +It is not a single bug/problem. We just see various bug reports, mostly gcc internal bugs, compiler syntax errors in source or bad code compiled. They -all are solved using different version of gcc. I understand that gcc 2.96 -has different default optimization flags and they conflicts with our inline +are all solved by using a different version of gcc. I understand that gcc 2.96 +has different default optimization flags and they conflict with our inline asm code, but we can't fix them, and we really don't want to fix them as they work with other compilers or gcc versions, and the fix may cause speed loss.
-I think that the gcc 2.96 should be fixed to be option-compatible with other -releases, but redhat guys refused to do it. If someone interested - ask +I think that gcc 2.96 should be fixed to be option-compatible with other +releases, but Red Hat guys refused to do it. If someone is interested - ask Eugene K., avifile author, he has a long mailing with them, because they had the same problems with avifile. Finally he changed avifile source to -workaround gcc 2.96 bugs... -We simply has no interest and time to do it. +work around gcc 2.96 bugs... +We simply have no interest and time to do it.
Ah, and about the pipe-in-comment bug: it wasn't really our bug. -I've talked one of gcc maintainers, and he told me that gcc 2.96 and 3.x -supports intel asm syntax, and it caused the pipe bug. But it is a bug, +I've talked to one of the gcc maintainers, and he told me that gcc 2.96 and 3.x +support Intel asm syntax, and it caused the pipe bug. But it is a bug, because gcc silently, without any warning, ignored the whole asm block!
-Other gcc 3.x problems comes from broken libstdc++ or glibc header (std_*.h) +Other gcc 3.x problems come from a broken libstdc++ or glibc header (std_*.h) installation. They are not our fault. MPlayer compiles and works well with gcc 2.95.3 (MEncoder won't work with 2.95.2 because it miscompiles some MMX instructions). 2.96 and 3.0.x are broken, but it depends on @@ -91,9 +91,9 @@
No. You are wrong! -Several projects (mostly which contain highly optimized inline asm code) -had problems with gcc 2.96. For example: avifile, MESA / DRI, Wine, ffmpeg, -lame, NuppelVideo, MySQL. But other projects already workarounded gcc bugs +Several projects (mostly those which contain highly optimized inline asm code) +had problems with gcc 2.96, for example: avifile, MESA / DRI, Wine, ffmpeg, +lame, NuppelVideo, MySQL. But other projects already worked around gcc bugs (changed code which triggered compiler bugs) so they work for now.
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ No.1 rule of gcc 2.96 users: NEVER REPORT BUGS OR PROBLEMS IF YOU ARE USING GCC 2.96 !-Question: Ok. Understood. But I want to give it a try... how to compile with gcc 2.96? +Question: OK. Understood. But I want to give it a try... how to compile with gcc 2.96?
-Answer: Really? Are you sure? Ok. You know... here it is: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking +Answer: Really? Are you sure? OK. You know... here it is: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking