[MPlayer-users] Alan Cox says gcc 2.96 is not buggy

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:05:46PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > Well, it's wrong. egcs is (was) an official gcc release and AFAIK has no
> > > problems building mplayer.
> > you tried, if egcs compiles mplayer fine for pentium mmx, pentium 3 and k6-2
> > and athlon report it and we will modify configure check.
> 
> I tried pentium mmx, k6-2 and athlon. It works perfectly.
> 
> I haven't any pentium 3. But maybe someone on the list can test it.
> 
> > We are not saying egcs is gcc 2.96 we just say it's bad compiler version.
> 
> So if I do the test with 2.96-85 and it passes mmx/p3/k6-2/athlon you will
> accept it as well? (It's quite easy to check for 2.96-85)


Well. MPlayer is for watching movies, please stop this compiler thread ...
I don't understand why people beleives in gcc 2.96 like it would be a God
or something ....

- Gabor