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author | gabucino |
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date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:45:48 +0000 |
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6 <B>Question:</B> What is GCC 2.96 ? I can't find it at GNU site. | |
7 </P> | |
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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> | |
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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> | |
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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> | |
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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> | |
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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> | |
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