From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4444 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2013 21:48:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 4420 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Feb 2013 21:48:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-pa0-f46.google.com) (209.85.220.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:48:31 +0000 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id kp14so58489pab.33 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:48:30 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.66.21.2 with SMTP id r2mr286483pae.200.1361483309909; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [175.145.250.126] ([175.145.250.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kt5sm12250pbc.30.2013.02.21.13.48.26 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:48:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51269624.50404@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:48:00 -0000 From: JonY <10walls@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GCC maintainer volunteer? References: <20130219074614.GB29443@calimero.vinschen.de> <51235244.2050602@gmail.com> <20130219054653.24be2661@YAAKOV04> <512375B7.2010203@gmail.com> <51260AB4.2010104@gmail.com> <51262240.4020808@gmail.com> <20130221134233.GD28458@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130221165907.GG28458@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20130221165907.GG28458@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig57316E0A30FC50DB929876B9" X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2013-02/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig57316E0A30FC50DB929876B9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1406 On 2/22/2013 00:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 21 11:31, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> On 21 February 2013 10:38, NightStrike wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> On Feb 21 21:33, JonY wrote: >>>>> On 2/21/2013 20:40, NightStrike wrote: >>>>>>> I've started looking at the patches, they definitely aren't trivial. >>>>>>> I'll probably be releasing it as experimental. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are local cygwin patches to gcc? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes, about 100KB of it. I confess I don't know what most of is for, my >>>>> understanding of the gcc internals are limited. >>>> >>>> I assume some (or all) of them are already upstream, but they were not >>>> backported into the 4.5.x branch. It might be a good idea to start out >>>> with a clean upstream build and then look into the patches if they sti= ll >>>> make some sense. >>> >>> Are they in 4.6? If so, why not just start fresh and clean with a 4.6 >>> 'chain that needs zero patching? >> >> I believe Corinna means going to later version of GCC, preferably >> straight to 4.7 would be great. >=20 > Exactly. The question is then, what patches from the 4.5.3 gcc were > not applied upstream and still make sense today. >=20 I have not looked at all the patches closely, but some of them were not merged in gcc-4.7.2, at least the peflags patch did not. Who is the upstream GCC maintainer for Cygwin anyway? --------------enig57316E0A30FC50DB929876B9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 834 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRJpYkAAoJEHE7X+KcFF1F940QAI0pBishpUUS3T74GrZmzwfV MORXOtrHH/I5aaehx+LaCXoEuHx4YRxJkwgtmiDxNh7R6DE21ScdtuivnWGFGtPj v8dPN+cp7w65tuIbZkb8A+41HSFJThDShZS0stSS0TnI6QzqUQa0smx0fTF2zATQ AoZGDzOfQNeDFm0afrgjlZAMm8gChiKi3Vd5f9X+fz0rL89+hrrALEy4Ym/2EHzG 5RiW6AvJEUBWRJJUbpB3Up8Rg7m+BRC94Po8WZCGfTZUsQS1lgj5ra901b3g53Ky t1VwWsOEQITnasyqACoaUskcpBw/JTdy7ruMqWR8EPv66r2+eK3EyMw42hwEED5N o+jwtKlMQ5F439U+PnVnmtFQlql+l2pKlQnqtzZ49i5TrGMI1Z425uBs7QbLhK3F HkDOXc6YYBzfSOaqTh7O77U+w6lpPdcsFvSssUb5KKN6DERK0/JnZhJcUj27IVbQ KIeBOf66LEice/1fyzkzKMiqC4+NvJEVeTSRX8VUkiJKRyXdPEFQIb7YEl0i7aQq KVxOsFpnLvcHbwQoi9Q1PCC+/dJ1NkNb+O7PC577EJE2Pb2wlBzB39nL05POPSTg lKukRXGTDDJB2ab2mzho2NX1NibWgWPeiQHbKmdRdz03WkSbyyg0y/+yGAkuqgd/ FrSztnpYPfZ79pqg0odx =EIp4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig57316E0A30FC50DB929876B9--