[vlc-devel] Heads up: VLC needs glibc 2.13 or later

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hello,

Once again, a GNU/libc bug can kill VLC. This time, it is really freakin' 
stupid: glibc < 2.13 marked the memmove() parameters as restricted pointers. 
Nevermind that memmove() is The One Typical Example function that MUST NOT 
have restricted pointers.

This bug is known to cause VLC to crash at run-time if compiled with 
optimization enabled, at least on GCC 4.6 or later. I do realize glibc 2.13 is 
very recent and upgrading it is not easy. But there is nothing I can do about 
that. As a work-around,  you can also fix your C headers by hand to remove the 
bogus __restrict qualifiers from the memmove() declaration.

References can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619963

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