Szabolcs Nagy <n...@port70.net> writes: > * ?scar Fuentes <o...@wanadoo.es> [2014-09-24 14:35:17 +0200]: >> MinGW(-w64) is not about compiling "portable" Linux software on Windows, >> it is about compiling Windows API/CRT software on Windows, just like the >> MSVC++ toolchain. > > the problem with mingw is that it does not implement the posix
Why should MinGW support POSIX? It is a Windows toolchain. Is it a problem that MSVC++ does not support POSIX too? > api and > thus code is littered with ifdefs or abstraction layers (which are > usually broken), llvm has its own share of ugly and broken ifdefs A library is portable when it runs on top of the target APIs, not when it requires to install emulation layers that force the library user to migrate his software to that emulation layer. [snip] _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
