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NightStrike wrote:

> If cygwin ever wants to be able to support newer gcc compilers,
> something needs to be done in this area.  There are several options,

That's a quite a misleading statement to make.  Everything is fine for a
native 4.4 using 3.4 as the bootstrap compiler.  That's the whole point
of the three stage bootstrap, to eliminate any influence of the
bootstrap compiler on the final compiler.  The problem only occurs when
you build a 4.4 cross using 3.4 because by definition you can't
bootstrap a cross.  But even then you're fine if you first bootstrap a
recent native to use to build the cross.  It's really not the end of the
world.

Brian

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