From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: G77 and Gnu-win32
2 May 1997 03:31:03 -0700
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Mumit Khan wrote:
[...]
> Unless gnu-win32 gcc backend changes are merged back into FSF, I know
> for sure that g77 team would not consider this a viable platform
> (unlike EMX and DJGPP). Nobody wants to work on gcc development
> snapshots that by definition are unstable and have ever changing
> interfaces. 

Cygnus works closely with the FSF to minimize divergence in gcc and
other tools.  While the gnu-win32 releases of gcc sometimes contain
changes not (yet?) approved by the gcc maintainers, the intention is to
merge back Cygwin32 backend changes back into FSF sources.

The beta 18 release will only contain a couple very minor gcc changes that
haven't been merged in, the rest are all in the current FSF development
sources so next time there's a public gcc release they should be there.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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