Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Tor Lillqvist MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14222.51556.490000.77766@tippen> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 08:55:48 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time) To: Mumit Khan Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, gimpwin-dev@gimp.org Subject: [ANN] gcc-2.95 dev snapshot updated to 1999-07-15 In-Reply-To: <199907160222.VAA12013@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <199907160222.VAA12013@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under Emacs 19.34.6 Mumit Khan writes: > - bitfield packing. I've applied Donn Terry's patch, but it's not > the default. If you want to layout bitfields exactly as MSVC > does, compile with -fnative-struct flag. Great! I got bitten by the binary incompatibility in some structs with bitfields some week ago in my work on porting GTk+ (and the GIMP) to Windows. I then decided to build differently named DLLs with gcc and MSVC. This caused some code ugliness when gtk or GIMP wants to load modules (DLLs) dynamically, it has to check if the module name contains the correct compiler name, etc. But, with this feature, I don't have to include the compiler name in the DLL names any longer, and can use gcc-compiled DLLs from MSVC-compiled code, and vice versa. I hope. --tml -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com