Brian Dessent wrote: > You might argue that most people > doing Win32 GUI stuff use MinGW, but a lot of them use Cygwin with > -mno-cygwin which is MinGW with Cygwin build tools, a very convenient > combination. And we can't offer a DW2 Cygwin gcc that uses SJLJ for > -mno-cygwin as they are really both the same back-end just with > different headers and runtimes.
Here I meant to add that of course we have discussed deprecating -mno-cygwin and offering a real MinGW cross in its place, which would have its own back-end, and thus could have a different exception handling model. But by the time you've done all that, you might as well just package a separate gcc named "gcc-dw2" or whatever and have them both installable in parallel, to please everybody. This is what Danny did with his 4.2 MinGW releases. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
