On 10/09/2018 04:59 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Oct 5, 2018, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > >> A new configure option needs documenting in install.texi. > > Ah, yes, thanks for the reminder. > > On Oct 6, 2018, JonY <10wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> They're both OK as far as I can see. I just don't like the configure >> name implying all 32bit pointers are used by userspace. Perhaps just >> --enable-large-address-aware? > > That might suggest the flag affects all targets, including Cygwin, so > I'm following the existing (undocumented) practice in suggesting > --enable-mingw-large-address-aware instead. Please let me know if you'd > rather not have mingw in the option name, and for it to affect (in the > --disable form) the Cygwin target as well. >
It is fine to turn it on by default in 32bit MinGW (i686-*-mingw*), but leave the defaults as is for others like Cygwin, I am not too sure of the effects for Cygwin. I don't think mingw should be in the configure name as this is applicable to all Win32 PE targets, it is a PE flag after all.
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