Re: [Mingw-users] Bug #127047 ate my balls!

[Paul G. <pga...@te...>]

Hi folks,

On 4 Jan 2001, at 11:27, the Illustrious Dan Egnor wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > Dan Egnor wrote:
> > > Is something likely to fail horribly for me later on?
> > Not necessarily.  If you application behaves, you might have
> > nothing to fear.
> 
> Sadly, my application didn't even build (I celebrated too early
> when I got 'hello world' to build).  Notably, one of the things
> his patches enable is anonymous structs in unions, and the w32api
> stuff assumes that if your compiler is 2.95 or better that it
> supports that feature.  So you can't even #include "windows.h".
> 
> I haven't tried hacking w32api to turn off that assumption -- I'm
> guessing I'll run into other problems, but who knows what all
> those changes do.
> 
> > Come to think of it, where are the patches?  I can't get into
> > Mumit's ftp site today, it mysteriously kicks me out anytime I
> > try to change to the mingw32 directory.
> 
> No such problem here.  This is the patchset in question:
> ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/
> gcc-2.95.2-1/gcc-2.95.2-1-x86-win32.diff.gz
> 
> > > Is it just me, or is this all terribly confusing?
> > It takes some getting used to.  There's a lot of opportunity
> > for cleanup (read: volunteer work).
> 
> So I see :).  Sorry, I was getting frustrated last night.
> 
> What I need now is a three way merge:
> 
>              gcc-2.95.3-prerelease
>            /                       \
> gcc-2.95.2                           where I want to be
>            \                       /
>              Mumit's mingw patches

	Here's an alternative:

              		gcc-2.95.3-prerelease
            			/                       \
 Mumits gcc-2.95.2-1                  where I want to be
            
> I just need to figure out the best way to get that done, with the
> appropriate triage (I don't care about everything in the 2.95.3
> tree, for example, just the sjlj fix).

	Peace,

		Paul G.


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