Re: Fwd: Windows support dropped from gcc trunk

[Paul Richard Thomas <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com>]

Dear Tim,

Thanks from all of us for taking this on. It is clear from clf that a
lot of people out there are using gfortran under windows and that the
poor support is not doing much for the reputation of gfortran.

Cheers

Paul

On 16 October 2015 at 22:57, Tim Prince <tprince818.tp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/14/2015 1:08 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:48:27AM -0400, Tim Prince wrote:
>>>> I added gcc@gcc.gnu.org as this technically isn't a Fortran issue.
>>> test suite reports hundred of new ICE instances, all referring to this
>>> seh_unwind_emit function:
>>>
>>> /cygdrive/c/users/tim/tim/tim/src/gnu/gcc1/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/20000127-1.c:
>>> In function 'foo':^M
>>> /cygdrive/c/users/tim/tim/tim/src/gnu/gcc1/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/20000127-1.c:7:1:
>>> internal compiler error: in i386_pe_seh_unwind_emit, at
>>> config/i386/winnt.c:1137^M
>> I think you'll need to file a bug report.  It probably
>> should be labeled as target specific and give a major
>> status.
>>
> The fixes checked in by Uros appear to have taken care of the C
> problem.  I am just finishing up a build of libgfortran using the new
> compiler, after editing the .h files to permit building in spite of the
> lack of support for either real(10) or real(16).  It still looks
> intentional that someone changed libgfortran so that it won't build
> automatically for this case.  configure still finds correct results on
> which math functions are supported in each data type.  There is a
> sqrtl() but not much more (and that will be the same as sqrt as Windows
> X64 sets 53-bit precision mode).
> Assuming I get a satisfactory gfortran testsuite, I'll post it.  gcc and
> g++ testsuites appeared to be back in the ballpark.
> Testsuite always produced failure of all rounding tests because of the
> lack of support for real(10) and real(16).



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