Are the changes here usable for cygwin? cgf
----- Forwarded message from Aaron Gray ----- From: Aaron Gray To: MinGW Devlopers Discussion List Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GCC 4.3.0 i386-pc-mingw32 ALPHA Release Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:39:08 +0100 Hi Aaron, A few dumb question here. > I've uploaded a binary release of GCC 4.3.0 to the FRS. Whats the FRS ? > You can get it in the usual place in the FRS as either > gcc-4.3.0-mingw-alpha-20080403.7z or > gcc-4.3.0-mingw-alpha-20080403.tar.gz. > > This release is intended for testing GCC, and not for general > development use. > > Warning: This is an alpha release. That means the build contains > serious problems that are likely to cause serious problems, including > silent incorrect code compilation. Okay, will test. > Instructions: > > Extract it somewhere. Add the bin/ folder to your PATH variable. > If you extract this over your existing MinGW installation, it will > replace your current GCC version's driver executables and documentation. > > This release uses about 500 megabytes of disk space when decompressed. > > > This is a GCC 4.3.0 tree, with the following changes > > shared libgcc enabled > vtable symbol fix > main symbol fix > static object build system fix > > These are mainly derived from Danny's 4.2 patchset. Are these patches availiable some where, or are they from 4.2 diff's ? > All languages (Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Objective-C, Objective-C++) > appear to be basically working. The testsuite results are fairly bad, > so they may not be working very well. > > Two major components are disabled : OpenMP support and mudflap pointer > checking. > > This release is probably ABI incompatible with all other GCC versions > for all languages other than C. C should be OK for portable code that > isn't compiled with exception support. > > This release is compiled to support Dwarf2 exception handling only. > Dwarf2 is mutually incompatible with all other exception handling > schemes, and foreign frames. > > If you want to throw exceptions between modules, you need to compile > with -shared-gcclib. Is this compiled on Cygwin or with MinGW ? Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ MinGW-dvlpr mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-dvlpr ----- End forwarded message -----
