> IMO you cannot backport such an incompatible change to a release branch. If > the Windows maintainers are confident enough with it and given that we know > there is no fundamental issue as far as GNAT is concerned, why not try?
Because stage 4 is not the right stage for such experiments. Also, we're talking about cygwin AFAIK, which we've never built/tested, so we have no idea what the state of things are there. Arno
