On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:59:21PM +1100, Danny Smith wrote: >Brian Ford wrote: > >> Vanilla gcc 3.2.x is NOT ABI compatible with Cygwin's pre 3.2 gcc, fact. >> I wanted to know why this was allowed to persist given the simple patch >> required to fix it, question. I had seen Mr. Faylor make statements >> before to the effect of: doubles in structures are not that common so who >> cares, so I advised caution in his use of that compiler for official >> Cygwin released software. > >Regarding the structure alignment problem: > >Adding -malign-double to compile switches should provide forward/backward/MSVC >compatibility. > >The other fix is to rebuild gcc from sources so that -malign-double is >the default (as it is now on trunk for cygwin).
So did I get this backwards then? Current cygwin gcc has it wrong, trunk has it right? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
