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[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > > I've found the answer. It appears that only vidix requires libgcc. So
> > > > if you don't install vidix, you don't actually need it.
> > > 
> > > what the hell is libgcc ?
> > > and what functions are used from it?
> > 
> > IIRC, libgcc contains function calls to emulate some 64bit math as
> > well as some exception-handling stuff that's mainly used for C++.
> 
> Exception handling? Since exceptions are only used in dshow loader, maybe
> we could put -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti everywhere else (where g++ is used,
> obviously).

there is no c++ code in mplayer
dshow code was rewritten in C long time ago


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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