Re: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0

[Tim Prince <n8tm at aol dot com>]

lee@rhoba.com wrote:
>  
>  
>   I picked 4.2.0 because according to gcc.gnu.org it is the "current
> release".  Although, since I have to operate in a cygwin environment I am
> having my doubts.  
According to past discussions, there is no chance of 4.2 becoming a 
current cygwin release.  It is too well stabilized for the changes 
cygwin would require to be incorporated.
I have been spending my time on 4.3, in the faint hope that it may 
become a cygwin release, and because a few issues I have been involved 
in solving have been accepted for correction (more so on IA-64). 4.3 has 
worked well for me whenever I wanted something newer than 4.1.
>   It appears that my results compare reasonably to Rob1weld's and Christian
> Joensson's May 24th results. 
The similarity of your results to Christian's convinces me that yours 
are valid.  Some of the test reports don't appear to be standard gcc 
versions.
>   How do I find/apply Dave Korn's patch to stdio.h / newlib?  Is it
> incorporated into any Cygwin contributed snapshots, or is it a pure manual
> source edit?  
I don't think it has been incorporated in cygwin snapshots yet. The 
official way would be to find Dave's newlib patch submission. I had to 
pester Dave for help to get my version of it right. 4.3 won't build at 
all without something resembling this (attached), and 1 or 2 testsuite 
cases are more severe than the build requirements.

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