X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <490C4B7D.9000602@bmts.com> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:28:45 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness References: <490A30C8.5000107@sh.cvut.cz> <001601c93b31$a961b940$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <003e01c93b42$e92a17a0$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490AE8A0.8090009@sh.cvut.cz> <001a01c93b4d$617de150$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490AF1E3.3020308@sh.cvut.cz> <007401c93b56$ebcfa510$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490B0084.1070803@sh.cvut.cz> <008a01c93b5a$9338d300$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490B078B.9030007@byu.net> <20081031135011.GB15518@calimero.vinschen.de> <490B21E9.80807@lysator.liu.se> <011601c93b6e$49bbb710$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <490B268D.3010801@byu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >> It is not portable to platforms with 16-bit int (although >> these days, such platforms are museumware). > > That, or: > - Running your car's engineware. > - Exploding an airbag into your face on detecting a collisionware. > - Recording your vital signsware. > - Pumping insulin into youware. > - Doing your laundyware > - Computerized exercise machinewear > - Microwaveware > - A billion other products with 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers in themware. > > CSci doesn't begin and end with the CPU currently on our desks! Thanks for reminding everyone that GCC is used for more than building desktop software. And to bring this around to Cygwin again, I've been using GCC for ARM under Cygwin for a few years now to build my Lua for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. Having been through the gauntlet porting C code from 8 to 16 to 32 bit machines, I've been bitten by almost every possible portability bug there is - and I agree with Gary Fix it the right way so that it's truly protable. Ralph Cheers, Ralph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/