[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] FreeBSD DVD Fix

[rcooley]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:08:18 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> at least -O2 
> should not break most compilers (not to mention that you simply 
> shouldn't use a broken compiler...)

I'd say you're obviously a Linux user :-)   On the BSDs (and likely
other platforms as well), it's not unusual to find that gcc is
perpetually broken in some minor ways.  I know I gave up on a
/etc/mk.conf entirely on OpenBSD, because there are just too many
applications that won't work when compiled with "-march=" set to
anything.  Things like -O2 also cause some programs not to work.  

However, I've used MPlayer on FreeBSD, and it's not slow as hell, so I'd
have to say they are doing optimizations, although probably outside
of MPlayer's configure script.  Maybe they are enabling runtime CPU
detection...  I don't currently have any machines running FreeBSD, so I
can't comment any more than that.