gcc 4.x for Cygwin?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 29 17:08:00 GMT 2007
On Nov 27 18:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Now for something completely different:
>
> Did anything happen in the gcc 4.x world which would help us to get a
> gcc 4.x for Cygwin at one point? Are some of the problems reported in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-05/msg00044.html fixed in the
> meantime?
>
> As for Charles' options how to go on:
>
> > (1) either you drop ada and java support, and we live with the
> > ever-increasing brokenness that will accumulate in the sjlj code, or
> > (2) you switch to dwarf2, we keep ada and java, but loose the callback
> > stuff and break backward compatibility.
> > (3) you release TWO entire SETS of compilers: an sjlj one with only
> > C/C++/Fortran, and a "real" one with DWARF2 and the full compiler
> > suite. This is a support nightmare; I recommend against.
>
> I'd opt for option 2.
Dave? Any opinion from the gcc maintainer?
Corinna
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