Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:20:23 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gcc2952s2.zip for next update of DJGPP port of gcc-2.95.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andris Pavenis wrote: > > Is it possible to configure GCC for 16-bit wide characters (to make it > > compatible with Windows in conjunction with RSXNTDJ), and have > > protoize be part of the binary distribution? > > Both things are in. Great! > Also support of using weak symbols and .gnu.linkonce sections when > specially enabled by one command line option (-mbnu210) as suggested > by Mark Elbrecht about half a year ago. Note that one needs recent > binutils snapshot to use this feature. This feature is off by default > unless somebody puts it into specs as default This should probably be mentioned in the README. > Maybe it's worth to make such binaries of some binutils snapshot > available from directories v2gnu/alphas or v2gnu/beta What exactly prevents us from putting out Binutils 2.9.1 with some of the latest enhancements on SimTel.NET? Apart of the time needed to package it, that is? I think 2.8.1 is too old to be still used.