* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:38:28AM CEST:
>
> Ah, ok. That's bad. The misleading name i586-mingw32msvc-gcc caught
> me. Again. What in the world is "msvc" doing in there?

Somebody (Brian Dessent?) explained it nicely, recently on some mailing
list that I skim; I forgot where, though, sorry.  IIRC it denotes the
MSVCRT runtime as opposed to the older CRTDLL one.

Cheers,
Ralf


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