[Dev-C++] RE: [Mingw-users] GMINGW GCC 3.1 another defect

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Dunstan [mailto:cod...@ho...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Cc: mingw-users
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] GMINGW GCC 3.1 another defect
> 
> 
> 
> Once again, the C runtime library is not written by the Mingw or GCC
> developers, it is provided by Microsoft in MSVCRT.DLL (which 
> is included
> with Windows). This is unlike some other Windows compilers 
> such as Borland
> C++ which have their own C runtime library. That is why bugs 
> like this are
> not trivial to fix, and would require an entirely different 
> implementation
> of printf. Most likely an open source library will be used, 
> but I think many
> people will want it to be compatible with the MS printf, in 
> the sense of its
> extra features (not its bugs and missing features).
> 
> There is a separate project at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwacr/ to
> develop a 
> complete C runtime for Mingw from scratch, so perhaps you could
> contribute to this project if it interests you.


I want and it would be great. But keep in mind that i know only C89,
learning C++ (TC++PL) and am about to begin learning .NET . :)

But since i do not know Win32 crap, i have the feeling that the team
will not want me. :)


Ioannis

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