On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Matt Oliver <protogo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Obviously changing things would require a consensus from all the devs. >> Personally I would like to see the DCE stuff removed as currently as stated >> debug or lto builds will fail with msvc and these are both options that are >> support by the configure script yet wont actually build without errors >> until DCE is removed. Ive also seen similar issues when using icl as well >> so although some may state there advantages to DCE it is fundamentally >> breaking things on certain platforms so it should be decided what is more >> important. > > > The discussion has so far always centered around the fact that DCE is > available on all platforms we support. The same reason was given to use C99 > as a baseline. > > When it turned out that Microsoft had incompetent leaders in their compiler > team, we wrote the converter for them, and the humiliation worked, MSVC > supports C99 now. > > I'm estimating that writing a DCE converter would take as little as a tenth > of the time it took us to wrote the C99 converter. Public embarrassment > works really well in some situations, and Microsoft is in clear need of it. >
Honestly I don't think these situations are comparable. There is no C specification that mandates DCE to be executed in a debug build. Relying on it happens to work on some compilers, but fails on others. I wouldn't claim those where it fails in debug are necessarily "broken". - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
