[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Drop support for gcc-2.95

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:38 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Search the archives, I have done extensive compiler comparisons on x86 a
> long time ago.  The result was that gcc 3.x prior to 3.4 just plain
> sucks.  3.4 finally managed to produce binaries that are as fast as those
> created by 2.95, but it takes considerably longer (40-60% IIRC).
> 
> We can discuss this once a gcc >= 3.4 is part of all mainstream
> distributions (meaning at least Debian stable).  Until then it's
> completely out of the question.

As Stefan Huehner already said gcc-3.4 is part of Debian stable. It's
not the default version, but neither is 2.95 (plain 'gcc' is 3.3.5). I
think most people who compile MPlayer on Debian stable themselves will
currently end up using the default 3.3.