[Mplayer-advusers] compilation fails again in postprocess_template.c

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 31 October 2002, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> > Sorry, no. I couldn't find any gcc3-3.2 packages that would install on my
> > RH7.3 box. I tried to build some myself using gcc3-3.1 and gcc-3.2 source
> > RPMs and failed. If you have some reproducible bugs in RH's gcc3-3.1 I'd
> > be happy to report them through bugzilla.redhat.com, because this gcc3 is
> > supported by RH.
> it depends upon the definition of a bug, (gcc 3.2 seems to have no problem 
> with the pp code, but gcc 3.1 seems to have troubble with it, its not 
> strictly a bug as noone ever said that if there are 6 registers available 
> (esp is the stack pointer and ebx is that stupid PIC pointer, they arent 
> available) that gcc must be able to use 6 in an asm()
> 
> anyway i disabled the .so compilation now, if no --enable-shared-pp is used so 
> this should be solved allthough dont expect to be able to compile 
> libpostproc.so with gcc 3.1
> and changing all code to use fewer registers isnt really possible

Fair enough. By the time we'll need libpostproc.so, I'll probably have switched
to RH8.x with gcc-3.2.

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