Re: gcc 4.x for Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov 27 18:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Now for something completely different:
> 
> Did anything happen in the gcc 4.x world which would help us to get a
> gcc 4.x for Cygwin at one point?  Are some of the problems reported in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-05/msg00044.html fixed in the
> meantime?
> 
> As for Charles' options how to go on:
> 
> > (1) either you drop ada and java support, and we live with the
> > ever-increasing brokenness that will accumulate in the sjlj code, or
> > (2) you switch to dwarf2, we keep ada and java, but loose the callback
> > stuff and break backward compatibility.
> > (3) you release TWO entire SETS of compilers: an sjlj one with only
> > C/C++/Fortran, and a "real" one with DWARF2 and the full compiler
> > suite. This is a support nightmare; I recommend against.
> 
> I'd opt for option 2.

Dave?  Any opinion from the gcc maintainer?


Corinna

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