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Re: gcc4: next release


On Jul  7 08:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Oh, and, talking about /opt or /usr, I'd prefer the above /usr/mingw*
> >sysroot idea.  However, I don't like the idea in the least to keep
> >two different versions of w32api around.  It's one target, so we should
> >have one set of headers only.  Right?  Wrong?  None of that?
> 
> Unfortunately, it sounds like we've stepped into the middle of a dispute
> between the mingw folks and the mingw64 folks.  Maybe the best thing for
> us to do would be to decide to use only one or the other but not both.

Hmm, sounds bad.  I would love to have a 64 bit gcc in the distro.  From
my POV, the only reason not to use mingw64 would be, if the w32api has
been changed to 64 bit cleanness at the expense of 32 bit cleanness.
But I certainly won't interfere in a dispute between two communities
I'm not part of.


Corinna

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