[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS documentation.html,1.264,1.265

Winner of tha face compo gabucino at mplayerhq.hu
Thu Jun 27 13:06:30 CEST 2002


Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS
In directory mail:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv8892

Modified Files:
	documentation.html 
Log Message:
updated gcc errata


Index: documentation.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/documentation.html,v
retrieving revision 1.264
retrieving revision 1.265
diff -u -r1.264 -r1.265
--- documentation.html	22 Jun 2002 10:22:48 -0000	1.264
+++ documentation.html	27 Jun 2002 11:06:19 -0000	1.265
@@ -418,12 +418,15 @@
     responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
   <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested version is from <B>2.95.3</B> to <B>2.95.4</B>.
     <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.x.x !!! They generate faulty code. If you decide
-    to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0 juts because
+    to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.x juts because
     it's newer! In some ways it's even worse than 2.96. So downgrade to
-    2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too!) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in
-    this case, be prepared for runtime problems).
-    If you vote for 3.x, try to use the latest version, early releases had
-    various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.0.3 or 3.1.
+    2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may need it) or don't
+    up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for compiletime/runtime
+    problems).
+    If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version, early releases had
+    various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's tested and working.
+    Don't use RedHat's gcc 3.x versions! 3.0.4-RH reproducably dies with
+    internal error during GUI compilation (vanilla 3.0.4 does not).
     Detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are still NOT fixed, they
     are WORKAROUNDED in <B>MPlayer</B>!) can be found
     <A HREF="users_against_developers.html"><B><I>here</I></B></A> and in the




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