[Mingw-w64-public] Math library discrepancies that surprised me.

2011-04-29 Thread Arthur Norman
The following short program compares the value of pow(x, 0.5) to that returned by sqrt(x) for a range of values of x, and prints out any first case where the two do not agree. With the mingw family of compilers I had expected the Microsoft C library to be in use. What I appear to see is

[Mingw-w64-public] Program repeatedly restarts when its console is closed

2010-12-04 Thread Arthur Norman
At the end of this message is a short program. It is linked as a windows-mode executable so when it is launched it does not have a console. It then allocates one and uses it. The expected behaviour is that when I run it a fresh DOS-style console appears and I can type a few chars in and they

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Release policy , relationship to other mingw projects.

2009-03-15 Thread Arthur Norman
 Are there any efforts to arrange for such an integration in the near future? The way that mingw.org packages things is too confusing for my tastes. However, we have not yet begun to port things like msys, or to try compiling msys on/for Win64. I personally feel that the msys environment is

[Mingw-w64-public] quick report on recent snapshots...

2008-03-20 Thread Arthur Norman
... since everybody is very active today! I run on Vista-x86_64, and run under a cygwin shell so I have all the 32-bit development tools I like. When I compile I go -mno-cygwin and that is how my scripts and autoconf things are all set up. With mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-mingw_20080320.tar.bz2