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Re: PING: Deprecation of -mno-cygwin.
Eric Backus wrote:
> Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>>> which would put all the confusion to rest.
>> Big DITTO. As Dave said, the option is already gone...
>
> Moving to a better solution is great! But isn't it customary to have some
> overlap period where the deprecated solution still works (but with ugly
> warnings) while the new solution is available?
gcc-3 -mno-cygwin still works just as well (or badly!) as it ever has done,
and will be retained for ever.
gcc-4 series releases will not support it at all. As the whole thing is
(still) experimental and explicitly warned to be unstable I don't see the need
to go for a deprecation period.
cheers,
DaveK
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