X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <03a901c79238$63b293e0$0200a8c0@AMD2500> From: "Aaron Gray" To: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" Cc: , References: <2b2c01c78fa5$d94a27c0$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <01f001c78fc6$c916ce00$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <463DDE7F.5010105@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <463EDE36.1020807@aaronwl.com> <005601c790b9$52c5e940$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <464178E3.10108@aaronwl.com> Subject: Re: Successful build of GCC 4.2.0 RC3 on latest Cygwin snapshot 20070427 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:48:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > Aaron Gray wrote: > >>> One issue that might affect many some is that COM doesn't work. >>> has a patch that >>> is pending review I guess, but probably won't go into 4.2. > >> Does this effect XPCOM meaning Mozilla and friends will not compile ? > > It is triggered anywhere multiple inheritance is combined with stdcall. > Since I believe XPCOM uses stdcall on Windows (but "cdecl" on other > targets), I believe the answer here is 'Yes, Mozilla will not compile.' But its fine on Unix platforms, that is good. I am not sure if MinGW will/is used to compile Mozilla on Windows anyway. > I think it's likely that mingw.org will include this fix in their own > releases of 4.2, which is probably a bad thing, as it makes the need to > get this fix into official GCC sources seem less urgent. A lot of GCC > patches for Windows-related issues tend to stall for a long time in this > state; I'm not really sure why. Yes, this is perplexing. Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/