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| author | alex |
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| date | Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:45:39 +0000 |
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| 2 <BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE> | |
| 2441 | 3 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> |
| 4 | |
| 5 <P> | |
| 6 <B>Question:</B> What is GCC 2.96 ? I can't find it at GNU site. | |
| 7 </P> | |
| 8 | |
| 9 <P> | |
| 10 <B>Answer:</B> Read the <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html">official answer from GNU GCC team.</A> | |
| 11 </P> | |
| 2440 | 12 |
| 13 <P> | |
| 14 <B>Question:</B> What is the problem with GCC 2.96 ? And with 3.x ? | |
| 15 </P> | |
| 16 | |
| 17 <P> | |
| 18 <B>Answer:</B> | |
| 19 </P> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 <P> | |
| 22 And for the people, who periodically asks what are the exact problems with | |
| 2441 | 23 gcc 2.96, my answer: <I>we don't know exactly.</I> |
| 24 There were various problems and new problems / bugs come up periodically. | |
| 25 It is <I>not a single bug/problem</I>. We just see various bugreports, mostly | |
| 2440 | 26 gcc internal bugs, compiler syntax errors in source or bad code compiled. They |
| 27 all are solved using different version of gcc. I understand that gcc 2.96 | |
| 28 has different default optimization flags and they conflicts with our inline | |
| 29 asm code, but we can't fix them, and we really don't want to fix them as they | |
| 30 work with other compilers or gcc versions, and the fix may cause speed loss. | |
| 31 </P> | |
| 32 | |
| 33 <P> | |
| 34 I think that the gcc 2.96 should be fixed to be option-compatible with other | |
| 35 releases, but redhat guys refused to do it. If someone interested - ask | |
| 36 Eugene K., avifile author, he has a long mailing with them, because they had | |
| 37 the same problems with avifile. Finally he changed avifile source to | |
| 38 <I>workaround</I> gcc 2.96 bugs... | |
| 39 We simply has no interest and time to do it. | |
| 40 </P> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <P> | |
| 43 Ah, and about the pipe-in-comment bug: it wasn't really our bug. | |
| 44 I've talked one of gcc maintainers, and he told me that gcc 2.96 and 3.x | |
| 45 supports intel asm syntax, and it caused the pipe bug. But it was a bug, | |
| 46 because gcc silently, without any warning, ignored the whole asm block. | |
| 2441 | 47 <I>They</I> have fixed that, now it prints warning and doesn't skip the block. |
| 2440 | 48 (at least he told me, i didn't checked) |
| 49 </P> | |
| 50 | |
| 51 <P> | |
| 52 Other gcc 3.x problems comes from broken libstdc++ or glibc header (std_*.h) | |
| 53 installation. They are not our fault. MPlayer compiles and works well with | |
| 54 gcc 3.x versions. <B>Only 2.96 is broken</B>, but it depends on many environment | |
| 55 elements, including gcc 2.96 release number, enabled mplayer features, etc. | |
| 56 <I>If it works for you using gcc 2.96, it doesn't mean it will work for everyone.</I> | |
| 57 </P> | |
| 58 | |
| 2441 | 59 <P> |
| 60 <B>Question:</B> No! You are wrong! Everything works with gcc 2.96 <I>but</I> MPlayer | |
| 61 </P> | |
| 62 | |
| 63 <P> | |
| 64 <B>Answer:</B> | |
| 65 </P> | |
| 66 | |
| 67 <P> | |
| 68 No. You are wrong! | |
| 69 Several projects (mainly which source contains high optimized inline asm code) | |
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70 had problems with gcc 2.96. For example: avifile, MESA / DRI, Wine, ffmpeg. |
| 2441 | 71 But other projects already workarounded gcc bugs (changed code which |
| 72 triggered compiler bugs) so they work for now. | |
| 73 </P> | |
| 74 | |
| 75 <P> | |
| 76 <B>Question:</B> No! You are wrong! Everything works with gcc 2.96 <I>including</I> MPlayer | |
| 77 </P> | |
| 78 | |
| 79 <P> | |
| 80 <B>Answer:</B> | |
| 81 </P> | |
| 82 | |
| 83 Good. Be happy. But you must know, it depends on many environment | |
| 84 elements, including gcc 2.96 release number, enabled mplayer features, etc. | |
| 85 <I>If it works for you using gcc 2.96, it doesn't mean it will work for everyone!</I> | |
| 86 It only means that you are lucky, until you find a problem. But don't forget the | |
| 87 <B>No.1 rule of gcc 2.96 users: NEVER REPORT BUGS OR PROBLEMS IF YOU ARE USING GCC 2.96</B> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <P> | |
| 90 <B>Question:</B> Ok. Understood. But I want to give it a try... how to compile with gcc 2.96? | |
| 91 </P> | |
| 92 | |
| 93 <P> | |
| 94 <B>Answer:</B> Really? Are you sure? Ok. You know... here is it: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking | |
| 95 </P> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 <P> | |
| 98 <B>Question:</B> No! I don't agree with you, because ... | |
| 99 </P> | |
| 100 | |
| 101 <P> | |
| 102 <B>Answer:</B> It doesn't matter. Keep your commets for yourself. We're not interested in gcc 2.96 stories. | |
| 103 </P> | |
| 104 | |
| 105 | |
| 106 </FONT> | |
| 2440 | 107 </BODY> |
| 108 </HTML> |