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

[Luca Barbato]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:54:30AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Rich Felker wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:20:06AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>> Attila Kinali wrote:
>>>>> You forget another argument: 2.95 has fewer bugs than 3.x or 4.x,
>>>>> thus whenever someone suspects a gcc bug, first thing they
>>>>> do is to compile it with 2.95. 
>>>> gcc-4.1.1 has fewer bugs than gcc-2.95, supports more arches, has less
>>>> issues with asm constraints and so on...
>>> And amusingly it does not build. Or at least not without 2 gigs of
>>> vm for all the useless -march data tables.
>> if build system is demanding I guess probably could be possible split
>> the -march tables in some way.
> 
> What I'd like is a way to remove them. I never use anything but
> -march=386 and don't want them wasting space and build time. If I
> specify the target arch as i386, why does gcc insist on including
> code for building 586/686/athlon/p4/etc. stuff?

I bugged somebody from gcc upstream:

gcc/config/i386/i386.c

hack it a bit and you'll get what you want (hopefully)

lu

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