Re: [xine-devel] libavcodec CFLAGS trouble

[Nikolaus F. <fi...@ws...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:43:22AM -0600, Stephen Torri wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 06:53, Heiko Schaefer wrote:
>
>> > uhm ... maybe i just understand you wrong, but as far as i know, the
>> > problem has only been reported for i386.
>> 
>> now i finally got what you meant %) the sentence was too tricky for me.
>> 
>> but the ffmpeg problem seems fixed for me now (or at least worked around
>> ... the underlying bug must be that gcc's optimizer is subtly broken. or
>> is there any other reasonable explanation for this effect?).
>
>No. I am not sure. I do not fully understand gcc optimizer in the sense
>that I know what each option does when applied. It would be nice to get
>a list of these optimizations with a explanation of why or why not you
>should use these flags. Also where the option is best used.

On freshmeat was recently an article explaining "the GCC myths". Please have
a look for first impressions.

Nikolaus