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From: "Seyran Avanesyan" <seyran.avanesyan@tanner.com>
To: <brian@dessent.net>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: 64-bit gcc
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D66102A43110FC488698F1C3B605E93108F962C3@exchange01.tanner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AF74C9.90FCDEF6@dessent.net>

 
> You're making a distinction where one does not exist.  gcc is gcc.
gcc
> currently supports something like three dozen architectures, all from
a
> single code base.  (And if you count OS variations[1] and bare metal
> systems the number of distinct targets is in the hundreds.)  There is
> no
> "linux gcc version" or "windows gcc version", it's all the same
> codebase
> built with different options or in different environments.
> 
> Some ports might have some local patches that are not in FSF gcc (but
I
> don't think mingw-w64 has any) but those are usually to correct broken
> behavior in certain corner cases so they are things you want.
> 
> Brian
> 
> [1] For example, for the x86 architecture alone: Linux, Darwin/OS X,
> Cygwin, MinGW, {Free,Net,Open}BSD, RTEMS, Vxworks, bare metal, etc.

Does it mean that gcc4.4.0 in mingw-w64 is more like a branch which some
time is going to be merged with main source code, then a fork, which
will live with its own life?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-23  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19 16:12 Restricting symbol binding within shared object Arindam
2008-08-19 16:58 ` special comments handling in the C compiler Tim Wang
2008-08-22  1:52   ` extern "C" From command line Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-22  2:12     ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-23  1:38       ` Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-23  2:37         ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-23  2:46           ` Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-22  2:04   ` 64-bit gcc Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-22 11:01     ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 20:09       ` Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-22 22:32         ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-22 22:45           ` Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-23  2:31             ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-23  2:45               ` NightStrike
2008-08-23  2:49               ` Seyran Avanesyan [this message]
2008-08-23  3:18                 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-23  2:00         ` NightStrike
2008-08-23  2:13           ` Seyran Avanesyan
2008-08-19 18:49 ` Restricting symbol binding within shared object Ian Lance Taylor
2008-08-20 19:36   ` Arindam
2008-08-21  4:43     ` Ian Lance Taylor

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