[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: {mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-,}gcc-11.1.0-0.1

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 10.05.2021 um 21:13 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> The native and mingw-w64 cross compilers have been updated for both
> architectures to the latest upstream release version:
>
>   gcc-11.1.0-0.1
Are there any known problems with gcc 11? My program crashes if compiled 
with gcc -O2; gcc -O1 works, gcc 10 also works.
Thomas

>   mingw64-i686-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
>   mingw64-x86_64-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
>
> This test release includes libgccjit as a separate package for the
> native toolchain on both architectures.  Since Cygwin can't use ASLR any
> nontrivial dynamic objects that get created in this way will likely need
> to get rebased before they can be used (especially on 32bit).  It is
> unlikely that build systems recognize the need for doing that at the
> moment.
>
> Please test these compilers with your packages and applications as
> extensively as possible (especially if you are a Cygwin package
> maintainer).  Unless problems are found that necessitate another round
> of testing, the plan is to bootstrap the support libraries with the new
> toolchain and do a non-test update in about two to four weeks.
>