From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26175 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2008 02:46:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 26167 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Aug 2008 02:46:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail01.tanner.com (HELO mail01.tanner.com) (70.137.39.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:46:09 +0000 Received: (qmail 19032 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2008 02:46:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO exchange01.tanner.com) (192.168.104.27) by mail01.tanner.com with SMTP; 23 Aug 2008 02:46:06 -0000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: 64-bit gcc Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: In-reply-to: <48AF74C9.90FCDEF6@dessent.net> References: <200808191257.28899.zepm@gatech.edu> <48AE205D.C938E9EB@dessent.net> <48AF1CC0.4FC8BBC1@dessent.net> <48AF74C9.90FCDEF6@dessent.net> From: "Seyran Avanesyan" To: Cc: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00252.txt.bz2 =20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Brian >=20 > [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?