From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24505 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2011 14:13:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 24356 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Aug 2011 14:12:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:12:21 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id BCD612CB468; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:13:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFU] mingw-w64 Message-ID: <20110831141218.GA30452@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4E5DDF7A.60009@users.sourceforge.net> <20110831091102.GJ30452@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E5E0369.50600@users.sourceforge.net> <4E5E3D24.7010508@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E5E3D24.7010508@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 On Aug 31 09:54, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/31/2011 5:48 AM, JonY wrote: > > C++ ABI for 4.6.x has also changed for mingw* (including mingw.org) > > with the introduction of thiscall, not sure if this will affect > > Cygwin itself. > [...] > OTOH, the cygwin project DOES provide several precompiled C++ > packages, so cygwin will probably need to do a flag day for them (when > cygwin-gcc-4.6 is released), but I don't think the cygwin package > ITSELF would be affected. I don't think this is necessary, unless __thiscall will become default behaviour in g++. However, I guess this is the responsibility of the gcc maintainer for a given target. For 32 bit Cygwin I would not do it, for 64 bit it might make sense, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat