On 10/10/2018 03:24 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct  9, 2018, JonY <10walls@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It is fine to turn it on by default in 32bit MinGW (i686-*-mingw*), but
>> leave the defaults as is for others like Cygwin, I am not too sure of
>> the effects for Cygwin.
> 
> Cygwin already has --large-address-aware enabled, without an option to
> disable it.  That makes sense, considering that Cygwin targets Unix
> programs, unlikely to have Windows-specific pointer assumptions.
> 
> That's why I phrased the option, and implemented it, as specific to
> mingw.
> 
> Now, if you wish it to affect Cygwin as well, I could implement that,
> and drop -mingw from the option name.  I'd retain the current defaults
> of each target, unless there's a strong reason to change them.
> 

In that case, no objections then.