Hi JonY, Sorry for the delay. Please find updated patch as per Gerald and you suggestion. Is this ok for wwwdocs once [1] is committed in GCC 8 cycle? [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-02/msg01153.html Best regards, Thomas On 12/03/17 23:51, JonY wrote: > On 03/12/2017 02:07 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Thomas Preudhomme wrote: >>> JonY: what about the attached patch to document the change of behavior >>> of GCC on Windows depending on the configure option used? >> >> +
GCC on Microsoft Windows can now be configured via
>> +--enable-mingw-wildcard
or
>> --disable-mingw-wildcard
>> +to force a specific behavior for GCC itself with regards to supporting or
>> +not the wildcard character. Prior versions of GCC would follow the
>>
>> Perhaps put "(or not)" in parentheses?
>>
>> +configuration of MinGW runtime. This behavior can still be obtained by not
>> +using the above options or by using
>> +--enable-mingw-wildcard=platform
.