On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote:
>> If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use
>> "-dumpmachine" instead.
>>
>> $ gcc -dumpmachine
>> i686-pc-cygwin
>> $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
>> i686-pc-mingw32
>
> Having identification behaviour dependent on a cygwin-specific flag
> like this is.. insane.
When you use -mno-cygwin, you are invoking A DIFFERENT
compiler. Having the
*same* identification for two different compilers that target different
targets would be insane.