[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] workaround for altivec const vars in gcc-3.4 (postproc/swscale_altivec_template.c)

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed May 26 22:14:06 CEST 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Luca Barbato wrote:
> 
> >Asking the gcc developers, the solution is remove those unneeded casts, 
> >it works for every gcc with decent altivec support.
> 
> ROTFL. The did say "decent altivec support" ? FSF gcc can't
> compile some of my code (after allocating  1GiB it explodes),
> and sometimes manage to screw up what is compiled.
> 
> They really should have borrowed the motorola/apple version
> of the code.

This is very ignorant/stupid. The Apple version completely tramples
the C language by using () in conflicting ways, when {} already exist
for exactly the purpose they wanted...

Rich, really sick of stupid apple-worship




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