From: Igor P. <pec...@cs...> - 2002-09-06 15:14:49
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > My guess is that there are more GCC experienced people using MinGW for > > mingw32-gcc than there are MSVC experienced people using MinGW for any > > reason. A drop in replacement for MSVC, surely isn't the desire. > > Wanting to the package to port to all versions of Win32 is the desire. > ^^^^^^ s/to the/a > > Using new Win32 API not supported on older versions of the OS isn't the > > way to go about doing that. Runtime surprises, is not the place to > > discover that the port doesn't work. > ^on prior versions of win32 > Earnie. I'm not qualified to have an opinion on this, but something here reminds me of the old discussion on whether to use numeric co-processor features in a compiler vs. emulating floating point in software... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pec...@cs... ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ ig...@wa... |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file |