RE: Testing gcc 4.2.3

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27 February 2008 16:16, Brian Dessent wrote: > That would be fine if it were even possible to build a shared libgcc. > FSF gcc won't even do this, nor will it build shared libstdc++, etc. > MinGW's gcc 4.2 has a humongous local patch that backports a bunch of > stuff from 4.3 as well as using a

Re: Testing gcc 4.2.3

2008-02-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: > About the shared libgcc: > Since this problem will not go away until we decide to keep the old and slow > WINAPI compatible SJLJ (hopefully not), we can just add this libgcc as > Base package. > Similar to the msvcrt.dll in the windows world. That would be fine if it were eve

Re: Testing gcc 4.2.3

2008-02-27 Thread Reini Urban
2008/2/26, Brian Dessent: > Sigh. You'll have to search the archives. There are a number of things > preventing a move to gcc 4.x as the system compiler. The main snags are > lack of shared libgcc (which breaks C++ EH with shared libraries) and > the everlasting debate about if and how to tra

Re: Testing gcc 4.2.3

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Dessent
David Arnstein wrote: > This process generated many stack dumps. There were also test suite > failures, not surprising in light of the stack dumps. Finally, my > Windows Application Event Log filled with error messages from Cygwin. They're messages from cygserver, not Cygwin. I can't really see