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Re: [ITP] mintty 0.3.4


Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Ralph Hempel on 1/18/2009 4:44 PM:
>> Charles Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't cygwin officially support i386, or are we allowed to assume i586
>>> and above, now?
>> Considering that support for Win98 is going to be dropped, the
>> question may be answered if Win2K or better will even run on
>> a 386 or 486? :-)
>
> In which case, shouldn't the gcc defaults be bumped to require this by
> default?

  According to

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297

the minimum is i586 (Pentium 1).  So yes, we should change the gcc defaults.
I'll fix my local patchset and try to remember to post a patch upstream as well.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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