On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:27 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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> On 2012-02-16 23:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> -mms-bitfields should really only be used on Win32, unless you are doing
>> something really weird, or building for Win32 on GNU/Linux+MinGW.
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> well yes.
> what i don't really understand is, why gcc on linux (i'm not talking
> about a cross-compiler like i686-w64-mingw32-gcc that runs on linux but
> really builds w32 binaries, but instead about a native compiler that
> produces binaries for linux) provides and uses the "-mms-bitfields" flag
> at all.
> what are the possible uses of ms-bitfields on linux?
I think there are no uses of running ms-bitfields code on GNU/Linux. But the
gcc on some distros includes things like -mms-bitfields and -mandroid to build
for those platforms without using a cross-compiler.
.hc
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