Re: [Plib-users] Fwd: Re: flightgear problem

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

pieter bonne wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:10, you wrote:
> >   * It only seems to affect RedHat 7.x and Mandrake 8 and most 'power
> > users' have abandoned those two distro's following the gcc debacle.  Hence
> > none of the Mesa developers are likely to have tested under RedHat to any
> > great degree.
> How can this be a compiler issue? I thought this was a programming bug? It
> however remains curious why redhat and mandrake seem affected anyway.. but I
> see no reason why it would be compiler related.. It's just a flawed function
> somewhere.. not?

If the 2.96/7 compilers are correctly translating the same source code into
valid assembler, it's hard to see how only RedHat 7.0, 7.1 and Mandrake 8
would exhibit the problem.  Is it just a coincidence that the main thing
these have in common that no other distro has is that compiler revision?

Maybe not - but it's hard to find another explanation.

> > You *are* aware of the 2.96/2.97 compiler "issues" - right?
> Yep, I am.. There are a lot of tools that even require 2.95 or 3 even to
> allow you to build.. (mainly video software, because pentium-mmx manipulation
> seems really messed up)

OK - I didn't know that MMX was a problem with those compiler versions - but
I can tell you for sure that Mesa *does* use MMX.
 
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