[angray: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GCC 4.3.0 i386-pc-mingw32 ALPHA Release]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

Are the changes here usable for cygwin?

cgf

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From: Aaron Gray
To: MinGW Devlopers Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] GCC 4.3.0 i386-pc-mingw32 ALPHA Release
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:39:08 +0100

Hi Aaron,

A few dumb question here.

> I've uploaded a binary release of GCC 4.3.0 to the FRS.

Whats the FRS ?

> You can get it in the usual place in the FRS as either
> gcc-4.3.0-mingw-alpha-20080403.7z or 
> gcc-4.3.0-mingw-alpha-20080403.tar.gz.
>
> This release is intended for testing GCC, and not for general
> development use.
>
> Warning: This is an alpha release.  That means the build contains
> serious problems that are likely to cause serious problems, including
> silent incorrect code compilation.

Okay, will test.

> Instructions:
>
> Extract it somewhere.  Add the bin/ folder to your PATH variable.
> If you extract this over your existing MinGW installation, it will
> replace your current GCC version's driver executables and documentation.
>
> This release uses about 500 megabytes of disk space when decompressed.
>
>
> This is a GCC 4.3.0 tree, with the following changes
>
> shared libgcc enabled
> vtable symbol fix
> main symbol fix
> static object build system fix
>
> These are mainly derived from Danny's 4.2 patchset.

Are these patches availiable some where, or are they from 4.2 diff's ?

> All languages (Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Objective-C, Objective-C++)
> appear to be basically working.  The testsuite results are fairly bad,
> so they may not be working very well.
>
> Two major components are disabled : OpenMP support and mudflap pointer
> checking.
>
> This release is probably ABI incompatible with all other GCC versions
> for all languages other than C.  C should be OK for portable code that
> isn't compiled with exception support.
>
> This release is compiled to support Dwarf2 exception handling only.
> Dwarf2 is mutually incompatible with all other exception handling
> schemes, and foreign frames.
>
> If you want to throw exceptions between modules, you need to compile
> with -shared-gcclib.

Is this compiled on Cygwin or with MinGW ?

Aaron


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