On Tuesday 09 October 2001 07:29 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:59:39AM +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > On 2001.10.09 01:17 Devon wrote:
> > > > [root@ric MPlayer-0.50pre3]# ./configure
> > > > You can get detailed help on configure with: ./configure --help
> > > > Please wait while ./configure discovers your software and hardware
> > > > environment! Detected operating system: Linux
> > > > Detected host architecture: i386
> > > > Checking version of gcc ... 2.96, bad
> > > > Please downgrade(upgrade) gcc compiler to gcc-2.95.2+ or gcc-3.0+
> > > > version!
> > >
> > > For details on gcc 2.96 and the decision to include it in the release,
> > >
> > > see:
> > > http://bero.org/gcc296.html
> > >
> > > I've had no problems with it at all.
> >
> > Hmm... MPlayer 0.50 - even with --disable-compiler-checking - doesn't
> > compile on gcc 2.96 (+errata) for exactly the reasons the author states
> > in the faq, it has problems with mmx code.
>
> Hmm, could you be please little more specific?
> I've just tried it (with gcc 2.96-98) on i686 and it compiled just fine.
> As MPlayer does not come up with a testsuite, I cannot test it though.
> Do you get ICE on some file, or does it miscompile some file?
> If the latter, how can I reproduce it, on which input file, etc?

I compiled Mplayer on my Athlon system with gcc 2.96-93 and have been using 
it (mplayer) without problems for about a month.  Of course, I edited out the 
editorial compiler check in the config script, but otherwise it compiled 
without problems.  

Todd



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