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RE: 64-bit gcc
> You're making a distinction where one does not exist. gcc is gcc.
gcc
> currently supports something like three dozen architectures, all from
a
> single code base. (And if you count OS variations[1] and bare metal
> systems the number of distinct targets is in the hundreds.) There is
> no
> "linux gcc version" or "windows gcc version", it's all the same
> codebase
> built with different options or in different environments.
>
> Some ports might have some local patches that are not in FSF gcc (but
I
> don't think mingw-w64 has any) but those are usually to correct broken
> behavior in certain corner cases so they are things you want.
>
> Brian
>
> [1] For example, for the x86 architecture alone: Linux, Darwin/OS X,
> Cygwin, MinGW, {Free,Net,Open}BSD, RTEMS, Vxworks, bare metal, etc.
Does it mean that gcc4.4.0 in mingw-w64 is more like a branch which some
time is going to be merged with main source code, then a fork, which
will live with its own life?