[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en faq.xml,1.62,1.63

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:03:32PM +0100, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > 
> > +You have stumbled over a bug in <application>gcc</application>. Please
> > +<ulink url="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html">report it to the gcc team</ulink>
> > +but not to us. For some reason <application>MPlayer</application> seems to
> > +trigger compiler bugs frequently. Nevertheless we cannot fix them and do not
> > +add workarounds for compiler bugs to our sources. Upgrading your compiler
> > +often makes the problem go away.
> 
> IMO this advice is bad. The other way around, never upgrading your
> compiler and always sticking with a known good one, is much more
> reliable.

If you are getting an ICE or an insn you are already past that point
and have a broken instead of a working compiler.  Sticking with it is
not going to help.  Of course if this happens after an upgrade you can
go back to the previous version.  So what about:

Upgrading or downgrading your compiler often makes the problem go away.

Diego