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Re: GDB 7.99.91 MinGW compilation error in cli-script.c


> > I think the best solution would be a check at configure time.  I think 
> > it's a function that can be quite handy, so it would be unfortunate if 
> > we had to avoid using it, especially if it's easy to implement ourselves 
> > for MinGW.  A configure check would be more robust than checking for 
> > MinGW or _GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF specifically, in case another 
> > platform needs the replacement too, or if the define changes at some 
> > point.
> 
> I've meanwhile learned that the latest release 5.0 of MinGW runtime
> solves this problem.

Version 5.0 was first release Oct of 2016, so about 6 months ago.
Is that sufficient to consider this issue as being resolved, or
do we consider it as blocking for the 8.0 release?

-- 
Joel


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