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Re: [RFU] mingw-w64


On Aug 31 09:54, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 8/31/2011 5:48 AM, JonY wrote:
> > C++ ABI for 4.6.x has also changed for mingw* (including mingw.org)
> > with the introduction of thiscall, not sure if this will affect
> > Cygwin itself.
> [...]
> OTOH, the cygwin project DOES provide several precompiled C++
> packages, so cygwin will probably need to do a flag day for them (when
> cygwin-gcc-4.6 is released), but I don't think the cygwin package
> ITSELF would be affected.

I don't think this is necessary, unless __thiscall will become default
behaviour in g++.  However, I guess this is the responsibility of the
gcc maintainer for a given target.  For 32 bit Cygwin I would not do it,
for 64 bit it might make sense, though.


Corinna

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