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Re: GCC maintainer going AFK.


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
>
>  I will try and stay attentive to the lists during this period; I am aware
> that I have a few outstanding emails to reply to, e.g. Marco A: I'm preparing
> a new release of gcc-4 with all DLLs for all the runtimes, and that will be
> available fairly soon, but I have a problem with typeinfo vs. libstdc++ DLL
> that I am currently working on a patch for ld before it can function
> correctly.
>

Someone spent their SoC doing major MingW improvements on the
compiler, including better handling of dwarf and pe weak symbols. It
might be worthwhile to see what can be ported over to Cygwin. It sure
would be nice to have pe weak symbols support in the cygwin loader...


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