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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:03:35 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To: Bruce Dodson <bruce_dodson AT bigfoot DOT com>, beastium-list AT desk DOT nl
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On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:08:34AM -0400, Bruce Dodson wrote:

> I am a Linux user, but Win32 programming is my bread and butter.  I was just
> wondering if the pgcc patches can safely be applied to the egcs used in
> Cygnus's Win32 compiler

It depends; try it! You have to find out on which version of gcc/egcs cygnus
is based on, and use the appropriate patch. It *should* work, but has not
been tried lately, so you might expect small problems.

> and if so, do they offer any benefit?  (Or perhaps

They should offer the same benefit as the other versions.

I heard the stdcall feature has some problems.

> they have already been incorporated by Cygnus.)  It seems appropriate that
> these improvements should be available to those using the most common
> operating system for x86.

Oh, we already have a djgpp port, for that OS ;)

> this topic has come up before, but I could not find any list archives and
> the question is not in the FAQ.

I would be interested to hear your experiences!

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