On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ozkan Sezer <seze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Wolfgang,
>>
>> 2009/10/4 Wolfgang Glas <wolfgang.g...@ev-i.at>:
>>> 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
>>
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>
> 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.
Creating our own gcc branch to support backports is definitely not
where we want to go. If someone goes through the trouble of
backporting, the patches do get accepted. It's just that people
generally don't do it. If you can find the time to put ti into some
mingw special gcc branch, then it can go into 4.4 upstream.
We do NOT want to be like mingw.org in this area -- **at all**.
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