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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>,
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Subject: Re: gcc -mno-cygwin STL support for setup.exe?
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:01:14 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:03 AM
Subject: gcc -mno-cygwin STL support for setup.exe?


> Unfortunately, I'm getting bogged down trying to add the rebase
> functionality to setup.exe due to the lack of STL.  I am hoping that
> I will not have to re-implement linked lists and possibly associated
> arrays too.  I see that Rob has a list class, but I don't think that
it
> will meet all of my needs.

Uhmm, I've not particular objection to STL use. However keeping
setup.exe lean and mean is an objective. We've already added 20% in size
with the reorganisation to date. So I'll ask you to keep an eye on the
stripped .exe size.

> About a year ago, there was some discussion about adding libstdc++.a
to
> Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin mode.  Can we revisit this issue?

I thought it was inked in if you link with g++.

Rob