[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Seek in real media files V3

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:07:16PM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 00:37:44 -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > because almost every version of gcc 3.x has critical bugs that cause
> > internal compiler errors or generate broken code when compiling
> > MPlayer.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> elvandar:~> gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs
> Configured with: ...
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)
> 
> I have been compiling mplayer like this for quite a while, and haven't
> noticed any problems. Do you have more specifics about what code is
> broken with gcc 3.x?

It varies greatly depending on your particular CPU (thus which
optimizations get enabled). I said _almost_ every version, in any
case. It's possible that 3.3.2 is a good one, for now, but eventually
critical bugs seem to be found in every release of gcc 3.x...

Rich