[MPlayer-dev-eng] fwd: [Re: [MPlayer-users] wmv8ds32.ax failed in 0.60pre1]

[pl]

Hi,

I think this may be of interest for the 'check wmv8 with gcc 3.0x'
urgent item of the TODO list.

----- Forwarded message from Stan Jefferson <sundodger666 at yahoo.com> -----

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:56:49 -0800 (PST)
To: p_l at tfz.net
Delivered-To: p_l at tfz.net
From: Stan Jefferson <sundodger666 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] wmv8ds32.ax failed in 0.60pre1


--- pl <p_l at tfz.net> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:55:33PM -0500, Hui Gary
> Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Good news.  with gcc-2.95.3, the problem is gone
> quietly.  But wondering 
> > why?
> 
> Just a guess, there's maybe a bug in gcc 3 that
> MPlayer triggers.
> 
> (Or a bug in MPlayer that's triggerred by more
> strict C
> compiling/optimizing... dunno yet...)
> 
> I'll try to investigate that here with gcc 3.0.3.
> 
>  
> > pl wrote:
> 
> > >On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:42:25PM -0500, Hui
> Gary Zhang wrote:
> 
> > >>Sorry, here is the report supplement:
> > >>
> > >>Distribution - RedHat 7.2
> > >>Kernel - 2.4.9-13smp
> > >>libc - glibc-2.2.4
> > >>X - XFree 4.1.0 (RedHat 4.1.0-3)
> > >>gcc - 3.0.3 (shared, posix, disable-nls)
> > >>
> > >
> > >Can you try & compile with a gcc 2.95.x if you've
> one installed ?
> > >
> > >
> > >>ld - 2.11.2 (with BFD 2.11.2)
> > >>as - 2.11.2
> > >>
> > >...
> > >
> > >>MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module:
> decode_video 
> > >>Successfully enabled DPMS
> > >>*** free_stream() called ***
> 
> --
> pl
 
I traced the problem to win32.c, ver. 1.40.  Compiling
with gcc 3.x, ver. 1.39 works, ver. 1.40 doesn't. 
This might not be much help since so many lines of
code were changed in ver. 1.40.  

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Best regards,
  pl