>> Is there a list of cons that go with it too? One con is that it seems to prevent building with gcc 3.x as that doesn't support weak declarations:
"/rockbox/apps/codecs/lib/codeclib.c:40: warning: weak declaration of 'codec_main' not supported" Unfortunately I can't seem to get gcc 4 working under Cygwin, so this may kill off Cygwin as an option for Windows users. pondlife