[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en faq.xml,1.62,1.63

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> D Richard Felker III writes:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:03:32PM +0100, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > 
> > > +You have stumbled over a bug in <application>gcc</application>. Please
> > > +<ulink url="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html">report it to the gcc team</ulink>
> > > +but not to us. For some reason <application>MPlayer</application> seems to
> > > +trigger compiler bugs frequently. Nevertheless we cannot fix them and do not
> > > +add workarounds for compiler bugs to our sources. Upgrading your compiler
> > > +often makes the problem go away.
> > 
> > IMO this advice is bad. The other way around, never upgrading your
> > compiler and always sticking with a known good one, is much more
> > reliable.
> 
> If you are getting an ICE or an insn you are already past that point
> and have a broken instead of a working compiler.  Sticking with it is
> not going to help.  Of course if this happens after an upgrade you can
> go back to the previous version.  So what about:
> 
> Upgrading or downgrading your compiler often makes the problem go away.

Try something like this: To avoid this problem, either stick with a
compiler version that is known to be reliable and stable, or upgrade
frequently.

Rich