Subject: RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup
From: Lloyd Wood <[email-masked]>
To: "Dave Korn" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:04:03 +0100

At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>
> > At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote:
> >> If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use
> >> "-dumpmachine" instead.
> >>
> >>  $ gcc -dumpmachine
> >>  i686-pc-cygwin
> >>  $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
> >>  i686-pc-mingw32
> >
> > Having identification behaviour dependent on a cygwin-specific flag
> > like this is.. insane.
>
>   When you use -mno-cygwin, you are invoking A DIFFERENT 
> compiler.  Having the
>*same* identification for two different compilers that target different
>targets would be insane.

But gee, that's exactly what gcc -v provides. A single identification 
for both compilers.

Why isn't there a gcc -v -mno-cygwin, then?

It's all positively minging. (Chris: note the usage tip. First g 
pronounced as j, so it's unlike any Chinese dynasties or Flash 
Gordon's nemesis.)

L.

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