[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en ports.xml,1.68,1.69

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 07:32:02 CEST 2005


Hi,

On 9/13/05, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> >
> > On 9/10/05, Diego Biurrun CVS <syncmail at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > +<application>MPlayer</application> should compile out-of-the-box on
> > > +Mac OS X 10.2 and up. The preferred compiler is the Apple version of
> > > +GCC 3.x or later, Apple's GCC 2.95.x does not support C99 syntax well.
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken Apple GCC 3.x and up is preferred because it
> > generates much better Altivec code from the intrisincs than what FSF
> > can... maybe this could be mentioned is someone can confirm...
> 
> Even on Linux PPC gcc 3.x produces much faster code than 2.95.  To be
> honest I somehow doubt that C99 stuff is a problem on PPC, at least not
> more than on x86.  So I guess this comment can just be dropped.

How about: "Apple's GCC 2.95.x is to be avoided." ?

Guillaume
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