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Václav Haisman wrote:

> is there a plan to move Cygwin over to newer GCC? GCC 3.4.4 is getting
> old. I could use the strictness of C++ compiler it brings.

There's no reason why you can't build gcc 4.x on your own, it works fine
in Cygwin.  If you pick a proper --prefix (or use --program-suffix and
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs) it will be completely separate
from the installed version of gcc, you can use the two side by side.

Brian

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