Re: [Mingw-users] [ANNOUNCEMENT] GCC Difference files available

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Mo DeJong wrote:

>
> I am wondering if the "msvc" bit is really the
> most clear name we could be using here. It seems
> like it might be more clear if "msvcrt" was
> used instead. I think "msvc" could be confusing
> since someone might think that stood for
> the MS VC++ compiler. Why don't we use IDs
> like this?
>
> i386-pc-mingw32-msvcrt-gcc
> i386-pc-mingw32-crt-gcc
>
> That might better fit the GNU model of:
>
> $machine-$system-$release-$version
>
> What do you think?
>

CRTDLL is dead and not going to be supported.   If it needs to get
changed to fit the model, and since the runtime actually has a version
associated with it something like i386-pc-mingw-32-0.4 might make more
since.

Cheers,
Earnie.


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