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 <anazawa AT hic-soft DOT co DOT jp> 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.

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