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From: Christopher Layne <clayne AT anodized DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:13:37AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating
> -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the
> distribution.  I really don't know why it wasn't done that way to begin
> with.  I have vague recollections of arguing for this when -mno-cygwin
> was first introduced by Geoff Noer but apparently I wasn't very
> persuasive.
> 
> I know that this will probably be another "Death of Cygwin predicted"

Fine by me. Can we slip in removing text mounts at the same time? ;)

-cl

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