On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kai Tietz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wolfgang, > > 2009/10/4 Wolfgang Glas <[email protected]>: >> Hello Kia, >> >> Thanks for applying ;-) >> >> I found some time to think about the remaining problems, which you were >> unable >> to push upstream like float.h, stddef.h header clash between mingw-w64-crt >> and >> gcc or making -mms-bitfields default. IMHO I would be best to maintain a >> small >> set of patches to gcc, which should be applied to a gcc tarball before >> building. >> >> This solution is not very elegant, but it might help to convince the gcc >> developers, that a patch, which is useful to many users should be applied to >> the >> mainline dispite all concerns... > > To prepare such a patch and provide it as optional could be a way to > solve this. But the experience has shown that such patches don't > getting applied to mainline. So I have here some concerns about such a > approach. > > Kai > > -- > | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste > | (='.'=) Bunny into your signature to help > | (")_(") him gain world domination
Another way would be adding a mingw_branch to gcc branches svn. Patches even applied upstream are being neglected and does not get reviewed for backporting to 4.4-stable by the maintainers these days. So, it may serve both for such backports, as well as for features which are being approached with reservations, such as stddef.h & co. -- Ozkan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
