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Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:40:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Does Cygwin's `-mno-cygwin' need Mingw?
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> >The -mno-cygwin switch of the Cygwin product is not considered MinGW by
> >the MinGW development team.  MinGW has it's own set of GCC/binutils
> >tools.  We are currently in the process of preparing a more upto date
> >package.
> 
> This is a recent stance, though.  Mumit tried hard to make sure that the
> mingw libraries and include files distributed by cygwin were the same as
> the ones distributed in the mingw "stand-alone".
> 

Note that my reference is targeted to GCC/binutils, it wasn't targeted to the
MinGW runtime which we'll keep in sync with both products.  So, the stance we
take isn't recent but long standing from inception of MinGW.  The two are
separate products but share some common files.

> In theory, if we're using the same libraries and headers, we should be
> producing the same code.
> 

Just like it should and will in the forseeable future.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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