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From: Paul Bibbings <paul.bibbings@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gcc: building gcc-4.5.0 for Cygwin
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:43:16 +0100
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Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 20/04/2010 20:28, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>
>> (BTW.  I'm guessing by "That'd be my fault" that you're working on gcc
>> upstream?)
>
>   I certainly am; my long-term goal is a) to synchronize upstream and
> downstream so that in the end there are no cygwin-specific patches needed and
> anyone can just build the plain sources from upstream and get a fully
> compatible compiler that generates fully compatible executables, and b) to add
> any missing support so that we can get features like LTO and graphite working.
>
>   I think we're fairly close to there already, but there might be some minor
> incompatibilities in odd corners of C++ related to typeinfos and dynamic
> typecasts.

Well, then, I very much look forward to the fruits of all that hard
work and am grateful that it appears to be in `safe hands'.  And, well,
... thank you! :-)

Good luck with that.

Regards

Paul Bibbings


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