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Dave Korn wrote:
> Well, here it is at last.  Experimental test release of GCC 4 series
> for Cygwin.  Please be aware that this is highly experimental; anything
> built with it is not guaranteed to be forwardly-compatible with the 
> eventual full release.  ABI details may change; compiler packaging may
> change.  The first stable release may come from 4.3.2 or from 4.4 series,
> depending on which seems most production ready after testing.

First, many thanks for your hard work on gcc4.

I'll admit I know very little about gcc internally, so perhaps you could
enlighten me on a few points.

>   libgmp3, libmpfr1 - These may become statically linked in a future
> version.

Why bother?

>   ./gcc4-4.3.0-1-cygport.local gcc4-4.3.0-1 all
>       unfortunately I've used a forked cygport script while
>          testing this.  the stable release will rely only
> 	 on the official cygport release.

Are there any patches that you still need in cygport for gcc4?

>   ./gcc4-java-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2

This seems to be incomplete; just gcj, no gij or libgcj.

>   ./gcc4-runtime-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2

In debian, this package is called libgcc1 for most arches.  I would
suggest a similar naming, but I see the DLL isn't versioned; why not?

>  - Shared libgcc 
>       (selectable by --shared-libgcc/--static-libgcc flag)

What's the story with shared libgfortran3/libobjc2/libstdc++6?

Also, is OpenMP available?  Is it being worked on?


Yaakov
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