On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:26:16PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On 4/2/07, Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 4/2/07, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I suspect I'd want this for x86 darwin as well. > > > >Why emulate Windows compilers on non windows machine? That is wrong. > >GCC for Linux/Darwin/any other OS besides Windows is not a Windows > >compiler and should not act like one. If people want to port their > >code, they should write their code to be portable way instead of > >depending on Windows or GCC stuff. > > And what if whatever declspec is (I don't know) actually makes sense? > > "Don't be Windows" is not 42.
If the Windows version of GCC has to recognize __declspec to function as a hosted compiler on Windows, then the work already needs to be done to implement it. So what's the harm in allowing it on other platforms? If it makes it easier for Windows programmers to move to free compilers and OSes, isn't that something that should be supported?
