RE: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-26 Thread Hitokage Nishino
If they start rejecting correct and useful patches just because the submitter uses a compiler or distribution they don't like, I'd be in favor of a fork (assuming we could find a reasonably good maintainer with enough time at hands), but AFAIK this hasn't happened. I know they are rejecting

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: Confirmed, I've had no problems with any mplayer version starting from 0.18pre3 to current CVS version, compiled with optimizations either for Athlon/Duron or for K6-2. I guess it's just the autors' brain-damage. I mean, it wasn't enough to

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Dominik Mierzejewski
czwartek, 25 padziernik 2001, Alex Kanavin napisa(a): On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: Confirmed, I've had no problems with any mplayer version starting from 0.18pre3 to current CVS version, compiled with optimizations either for Athlon/Duron or for K6-2. I guess it's

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: The main developer is using Slackware. This pretty much explains his attitide towards gcc 2.96-RH (It's buggy shit! No, I don't know what the bugs are and I don't care.) and Red Hat users in general. But he still could be called reasonable

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alex Kanavin wrote: By the way, it was me who fixed that mmx bug in mplayer, the only known ACTUAL problem with 2.96 (oh, and gcc 3.0 also has it, but that does not fit their 2.96 is buggy theory so they silently ignore this fact) - still they managed to completely

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: Or just use avifile. I'm not familiar with it though, but I hope the developers are not as arrogant. Thanks for the suggestion. I will not touch mplayer with a pole. Well, having said all that, I also have to say that _technically_

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Dominik Mierzejewski
czwartek, 25 padziernik 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer napisa(a): On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alex Kanavin wrote: By the way, it was me who fixed that mmx bug in mplayer, the only known ACTUAL problem with 2.96 (oh, and gcc 3.0 also has it, but that does not fit their "2.96 is buggy" theory so

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: Here it is: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/faq.html#5.1 I knew that one - I didn't know what really caused their problems. LLaP bero ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alex Kanavin wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: Or just use avifile. I'm not familiar with it though, but I hope the developers are not as arrogant. Thanks for the suggestion. I will not touch mplayer with a pole. Well, having said all that,

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Dominik Mierzejewski
czwartek, 25 padziernik 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer napisa(a): On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: Here it is: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/faq.html#5.1 I knew that one - I didn't know what really caused their problems. Yes, I thought so, especially after reading again

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alex Kanavin wrote: Or do you want me to comment on the mmx code skipping bug - the symptoms, the cause, the fix, and who's guilty? Yes. I knew about the original FUD, I'm interested in everything else, the cause and the fix in particular. (Because those will help other

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: What's license on mplayer? GPL Is it possible to fork the project? It would be possible - but I doubt their attitude is enough of a reason to do lots of duplicate work, as long as they're doing a good job otherwise. If they start rejecting correct

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Yes. I knew about the original FUD, I'm interested in everything else, the cause and the fix in particular. (Because those will help other people who wrote similar code). Sure. Mplayer used to include assembler code like this: /* Limit RGB

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug?

2001-10-25 Thread John Summerfield
By the way, it was me who fixed that mmx bug in mplayer, the only known ACTUAL problem with 2.96 Which compiler has the bug? This code compiles with gcc 3.01 but not with the RHL 7.1 version of gcc. [pgtest@numbat c]$ cat -n /var/share/pgtest/src/c/yahoo.load.pgc | head -95 | tail -10

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug?

2001-10-25 Thread Thomas Dodd
John Summerfield wrote: 88 struct tradeTable 89 { 90 long tradeSize, tradeCount; 91 struct tradeNode *tradeData[]; 92 }; 93 struct tradeTable *root=NULL; /var/share/pgtest/src/c/yahoo.load.pgc:91: array size missing in

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-11 Thread Dominik Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 11 October 2001, Matt Wilson wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Martin Ma?ok wrote: = http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/ ... Appendix D - Known bugs ... * No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing MPEG or OpenDivX files:

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-11 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Matt Wilson wrote: I'm unaware of any MMX related bug in the gcc 2.96 errata packages released for the Red Hat Linux 7.x series. My understanding is that GCC 2.x (96 = x = 98) ignores MMX routines; one should use gcc 2.95 or gcc 3.0 in this case (i.e.

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-11 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
Gary Sandine a écrit : On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Matt Wilson wrote: I'm unaware of any MMX related bug in the gcc 2.96 errata packages released for the Red Hat Linux 7.x series. My understanding is that GCC 2.x (96 = x = 98) ignores MMX routines; one should use gcc 2.95

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Martin Maèok wrote: = http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/ ... Appendix D - Known bugs ... * No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing MPEG or OpenDivX files: Problem: gcc 2.96 bug Workaround:

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-08 Thread Martin Maok
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:43:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47817 I was compiling new MPlayer-0.18pre and it complains about gcc version. (http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/) So I read the DOCS and found this in their FAQ:

RE: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-08 Thread Rajesh Joshi
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