Re: [Mjpeg-users] 1.6.2 on gcc 2.96?

[Richard E. <re...@ya...>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:35:31AM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Dik Takken wrote:
> 
> > Will version 1.6.2 be compilable on gcc 2.96? I have posted problem
> > reports about 1.6.1, which appears to be compilable only on gcc 3.x.
> 
> gcc 2.95.{3,4} was able to compile mjpegtools 1.6.1 without any
> problems.  On some of my systems I use 2.95.3 to build the cvs
> version of mjpegtools - works fine.
> 
> Which system is still using 2.96?   That was a troublesome version
> of the compiler (I recall MPlayer being miscompiled by gcc 2.96).

No one should be using 2.96.  That was never an official gcc release,
but instead was a redhat invention (which redhat release I do not
know) made by pulling a cvs copy of gcc and "labeling" it 2.96.  It
miscompiled lots of stuff, and it was/is object code incompatible
with everything but itself.  We should not expend any more than
minimal effort worrying about it, because the only true correct
answer to anyone still using it is properly "upgrade".