[Mingw-users] gcc -dumpmachine

[Magnus D. <da...@op...>]

Hi there,

I have a question about "gcc -dumpmachine". 
It's probably not only "-dumpmachine", rather what "--target"
is setup to when the toolchain is built.

Here is some output from various gcc installations:

Platform             -dumpversion -dumpmachine

Gentoo Linux on PPC  3.2.3        powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
Gentoo Linux on x86  3.2.3        i686-pc-linux-gnu
OpenBSD-3.2 on PPC   2.95.3       powerpc-unknown-openbsd3.2
Suse 8.0 on x86      2.95.3       i486-suse-linux  
Cygwin               3.3.1        i686-pc-cygwin
MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe    3.2.3        mingw32

Why does the gcc shipped with MinGW-3.1.0-1 just output "mingw32" 
instead of using the same syntax as the others?

I mean, I can pass "mingw32" to config.sub (shipped with autoconf
I think) to get "i386-pc-mingw32", but why not setting it to 
"i386-pc-mingw32" directly?

Thanks, and sorry if this has been discussed before.

/ magnus