[MPlayer-users] Bug: 0.60 Doesn't compile

[Nix N. Nix]

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:41, Horváth István wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > It's the Question that drives us, Nix N. Nix :
> > > > gcc version 3.0 20010507 (prerelease)
> > > This gcc is over half a year old! And it's buggy also.
> > > I recommend UPgrading to 2.95
> >
> > How is 2.95 an upgrade to 3.0.  If I have my math straight, 2.95 < 3.0,
> > right ?  What kind of weird versioning is this ?  Wouldn't I be better
> > off getting a later version of 3.0 ?
> 
> hey, you should really read the documentation, or the history of this
> mailing list, because the gcc 3.0.x is a bit buggy, but the 2.95.x series
> is not!
> 
> for example, if i was compiled succesfully mplayer with gcc-3.0.3, the
> mplayer segfaulted every time i wanted to play a wmv8 file!!
> but after i recompiled with 2.95.x this problem disappeared!
> 
> therefor the upgrade is means that, it is more stable than 3.0.x!

Alright, what about 3.1 ?  I saw RPMs for version 3.1 of gcc on
RawHide.  How does 3.1 hold up in the Grand Scheme of Compiler Things
(versus 2.95.x, it seems) ?

> ok? :)))
> 
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