[MPlayer-cvslog] r24941 - trunk/mplayer.c

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:41:06PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 16:37 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > A better commit message would be "statements before declarations not
> > allowed in MPlayer". The policy is using a minimal subset of C99
> > that's been supported by relevant compilers for over 10 (maybe 15?!)
> > years, not explicitly supporting a particular compiler version.
> 
> You already made, and I refuted, a similar claim about gcc-2.95 features
> matching some "natural stable subset" earlier, that time about asm
> features. See
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2007-February/049660.html
> 
> Your claim this time is similarly false. How many 10-15 year old
> compilers are there that can compile MPlayer? And how many of those that
> can compile it do not fully support variable declarations?

gcc 2.7 will compile MPlayer just fine afaik, perhaps even with asm.
Perhaps even earlier versions will do.

Rich