[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MPlayer-users] CVS compile error on PPC

[Romain Dolbeau]

Daniel Egger wrote:

> You're talking about the old Apple gcc, now Apple uses a 3.2 with
> modifications. And the reason for the differences is bog simple:
> the old modifications were by Motorola and they choose the simple
> way of introducing new semantics (by violating the any C standard)

Well, gcc already has plenty of extensions that violate the standard.
I don't see the problem of adding one more, as long as it's off
by default.

> instead of integrating it properly because it was much easier; the
> gcc project obvously cannot do this for their official compiler.

Why not ? Is it worse than ASM-with-C-operand ? (OK I didn't read
the C99 standard, maybe it *has* ASM-with-C-operand :-)

> The commandline switches were not in line with the normal switches
> so they had to be changed also. Despite the annoyance there're also
> quite a few benefits...

Well adding a simple '-faltivec means -maltivec -mabi=altivec'
in the proper file (can't remember the name) would have made
everybody's life much easier.

Anyway the code doesn't work, so I try to "fix" it. Whether the
code or the compiler is wrong isn't relevant to the end-user :-)

-- 
Romain Dolbeau