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

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Jul 11 17:03:50 CEST 2006


On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:45:31AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 02:03, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > And amusingly it does not build. Or at least not without 2 gigs of
> > vm for all the useless -march data tables. I've tried on multiple
> > occasions to give gcc versions > 2.95 a FAIR CHANCE to demonstrate
> > their worth, and every time they have failed miserably.
> 
> Amusingly, on my sparcstation gcc 2.95.3 fails to compile MPlayer
> with the default rlimit settings, due to its memroy need. 3.3.3 does it
> in less memory, as it doesn't need adjusted rlimits to not die. :-)

Are you sure gcc 3 doesn't just adjust its own rlimits? I seem to
remember it having code to at least increase the stack rlimit..

Rich




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