GCC maintainer going AFK.

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat Nov 1 04:44:00 GMT 2008


Dave Korn 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,

Does this also address Brian Dessent's concerns regarding
(1) versioning for cyggcc_s.dll?
(2) individual packages for each of the runtime DLLs
I think Brian makes a good argument for both...

> 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.

Oh boy, I vaguely remember issues with vtables, typeinfo, and DLLs way
back when (2000ish?) ... that's downright hairy scary ugly stuff.  Gives
me the screaming willies.

--
Chuck



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