[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you guys know if the problem with the access() standard library function
> has
> been worked around?
> Windows vista has an updated MSVCRT.DLL which returns false for access() using
> X_OK, this parameter was previously ignored, and returned true. MinGW / GCC
> does
Brian Dessent wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Do you guys know if the problem with the access() standard library function
>> has
>> been worked around?
>> Windows vista has an updated MSVCRT.DLL which returns false for access()
>> using
>> X_OK, this parameter was previously ignored, and
Mark Mitchell writes:
>In my opinion, this is a GCC bug: there's no such thing as X_OK on
>Windows (it's not in the Microsoft headers, or documented by Microsoft
>as part of the API), and so GCC shouldn't be using it.
Strictly speaking, access() (or _access()) isn't a documented part of
any Window
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I'm disappointed to hear that MinGW made this change. As a MinGW user,
> I don't want MinGW to interpose anything between me and the MSVCRT
> libraries. I want MinGW to give me headers and import libraries for the
> Microsoft DLLs, with all their warts; nothing more, nothi
Ross Ridge wrote:
> Mark Mitchell writes:
>> In my opinion, this is a GCC bug: there's no such thing as X_OK on
>> Windows (it's not in the Microsoft headers, or documented by Microsoft
>> as part of the API), and so GCC shouldn't be using it.
>
> Strictly speaking, access() (or _access()) isn't a
Mark Mitchell writes:
>(Again, I'm not trying to be critical: I like MinGW, and it's not my
>place to say what it ought to be. I'm just giving feedback as a user.)
Well, it's no more my place to say what it ought to be. I'm basically
just describing what MinGW is, a Win32 compiler like Borland C
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:21 PM
> To: Mark Mitchell
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MinGW, GCC Vista,
>
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > In my opinion, t
Although the file io.h from MinGW/include has a patch, I still have not be
able to use effectively the new build of gcc. I build it from a latop with a
semprom and execute it in a desktop pc with a core 2 duo. The result is the
same every time, there is a problem installation and it tells that cc1
