From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28763 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2011 10:49:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 28753 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Apr 2011 10:49:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:49:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 3705 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2011 10:49:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 13 Apr 2011 10:49:37 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [patch i386 mingw g++.dg gcc.dg]: Set -mms-bitfields as default for native windows targets Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-28-generic; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Kai Tietz , Richard Henderson References: <201104131136.48795.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104131149.35301.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00973.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 13 April 2011 11:43:43, Kai Tietz wrote: > > This is a default ABI change (IIRC, when the option was > > introduced, it was left off as default so to not break the ABI). > > > > Shouldn't we advertise it somewhere? > Yes, I did recently a lot of abi changing for mingw's targets. They > all will need a nice description (and possible ways to get old default > behavior) in changes.html > > I collect them for later. Or do you mean it should be noted earlier? As long as it's mentioned somewhere before a release, that's fine with me. (Though mentioning changes as you do them has better chances of something not getting forgotten, or in case you end up unavailable. Hope not! :-) ) -- Pedro Alves