On Mar 23 00:42, Dave Korn wrote: > > > Ho there gang. Over on gcc-patches, Kai has posted a patch to add some > documentation for the i386 cygming subtarget options. See the thread at: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-03/threads.html#00994 > > I asked him if he would add a note mentioning that -mno-cygwin is > deprecated, and anyone who wants to review the patch or suggest wording for > the deprecation warning is invited to pitch in to that thread. (In > particular, should we describe -mcygwin as being deprecated too, or should we > say that it will become the always-on default setting, but not actually > removed, since we might want to retain the positive form as a permitted no-op > flag to aid backward compatibility with old makefiles that use it?)
It might be helpful for a transition period to retain both options. $ i686-pc-cygwin-gcc -mcygwin <- just works $ i686-pc-cygwin-gcc -mno-cygwin <- Spits out a warning $ i386-pc-ming32 -mcygwin <- Spits out a warning $ i386-pc-ming32 -mno-cygwin <- just works But that's just me... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
