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Dave Korn wrote:
> Plain C applications will, by default, be linked statically against libgcc as
> previously.  To link against the shared libgcc DLL, '-shared-libgcc' must be
> manually specified on the command-line.

1) What exactly are the pros and cons of this?  IOW, why should we *not*
want to use shared libgcc?

2) How can -shared-libgcc (or -static-libgcc, for that matter) be passed
when building with libtool so that it actually gets passed on to gcc?

>  The to-do list for the first fully stable release currently stands at:
> 
> - Implement improved weak symbol handling in Win32 PE binutils, to resolve C++
> operator new/delete interposition problem with shared libstdc++.
> - Add support scripts for default compiler switching.

std::wstring for cygwin-1.7?  Please??


Yaakov

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