[MPlayer-users] mplayer WMV8 and gcc3.2 problem

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 04 August 2002, Goetz Waschk wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Sonntag,  4. August 2002, 16:28:19 Uhr MET, schrieb GS HUNT:
> > But... a cooker is just that ... it's a work in progress. it has bugs in 
> > it..... There is probably nothing wrong with mplayer and your comments 
> > really should be directed to Mandrake Development Team  and/or possibly 
> > the gcc team.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know the purpose of Cooker well, because I'm an active contributor.
> However, the gcc 3.2 compiler is basically gcc 3.1.1 + different C++
> ABI and bug fixes. It will be used in all major Linux distributions
> soon. I thought the MPlayer developers could find a workaround for
> this problem.

Actually, I find MPlayer to be a great testing ground for compilers.
Recently, I've found a bug in gcc-3.1 which was triggered by MPlayer's
core codec ffmpeg and reported it at RedHat's bugzilla. It was fixed
within a day in both places. FFmpeg guys worked around it and RH's gcc
maintainer fixed this in gcc source. So please don't be so confident
in gcc, because - more often than not - the fault was on its side, rather
than on MPlayer's.
 
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