From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: BUG: stdin not a constant (fwd) 4 Dec 1997 15:06:40 -0800 Message-ID: <199712041532.CAA05115.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199712040054 DOT LAA26717 AT rimmer DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ANAZAWA Akio wrote: >Anyway, I'm worndering why Cygnus's gcc couldn't accept Peter's code. >All of other portings of gcc (and others) that I can use around here >accepted it (gcc 2.7.0 on SPARC, 2.6.3 on FreeBSD, Sun's workshop cc, >VC++ 4.2 and 5.0). The important thing is not the version of gcc you're using, it's the C library you're using. Cygwin32 uses Cygnus's "newlib" C library. Cygnus chose to build a new version of the C library (mostly using existing BSD-licence freeware sources), rather than using the probably better-quality GNU C library. This was apparently for financial reasons. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".