64 bit Cygwin target and _WIN64

Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jul 19 16:15:00 GMT 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers) wrote:
> I'd vote for removing __CYGWIN32__ unless there's a need to keep it.
> Having multiple defines available that effectively mean the same thing
> makes it confusing to anyone picking this stuff up, either in old code
> or working on a new port.  Better to have a minimal set of defines so
> it's clear what they are there for.  But that's just my opinion.

Yes, please remove it and don't create __CYGWIN64__.

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