Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:03:00 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin gcc 3.4 and cygwin Message-ID: <20030317020300.GA1194@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030317015922.15816.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com> <20030317020123.GA1109@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030317020123.GA1109@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:01:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:59:21PM +1100, Danny Smith wrote: >>Brian Ford wrote: >> >>> Vanilla gcc 3.2.x is NOT ABI compatible with Cygwin's pre 3.2 gcc, fact. >>> I wanted to know why this was allowed to persist given the simple patch >>> required to fix it, question. I had seen Mr. Faylor make statements >>> before to the effect of: doubles in structures are not that common so who >>> cares, so I advised caution in his use of that compiler for official >>> Cygwin released software. >> >>Regarding the structure alignment problem: >> >>Adding -malign-double to compile switches should provide forward/backward/MSVC >>compatibility. >> >>The other fix is to rebuild gcc from sources so that -malign-double is >>the default (as it is now on trunk for cygwin). > >So did I get this backwards then? Current cygwin gcc has it wrong, >trunk has it right? I thought that the inclusion of MASK_ALIGN_DOUBLE on the cygwin-mingw branch got this fairly close to right. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/