On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:01:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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?
I thought that the inclusion of MASK_ALIGN_DOUBLE on the cygwin-mingw branch got this fairly close to 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/
