[MPlayer-users] Re: pre gcc 3.1

[Sven Hartge]

Dirk Pritsch <dirk at enterprise.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Quoting a part of a mail on debian-devel, I would say this topic will
> become a neverending story ;)

> ----begin quote----

> I think the point which has to be decided is whether we only need the 2.9x
> and the 3.x-versions (btw: the gcc-people already gave warnings that 3.1 will
> binary incompatible to 3.0, but 3.0 is not considered stable by them. ) If
> we decide that we only need two C++compilers, we might get along with a hack,
> eg using negative so-numbers for 3.x or putting a g++v3 somewhere in the libname.

> ----end quote----

I think he meant binary compatibility of C++-compiles. And this is not
new news, this has been a problem ever since. g++-3.0 is also not binary
compatible to g++-2.x and so on.

But since mplayer does not contain any C++ code, why worry?

S!

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