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Re: [patch i386]: PR/39356 name collision of __chkstk
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:59:56AM +0100, Kai Tietz wrote:
>Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote on 20.03.2009 09:42:27:
>>On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:24:52AM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>>>>This is OK by me, but please wait until 4.5, since this is not a
>>regression.
>>>>Danny
>>>
>>>GCC 4.3 definitely worked as it should, without having a broken front
>>>end. Why would you want to deliver 4.4 with a completely broken driver
>>>for win64, when it worked earlier? The patch isn't tagged as a
>>>regression, but it definitely is.
>>
>>I think this should be applied for 4.4 as well.
>
>Well, I think so, too. This name collision is now a pretty old issue
>(which was reported by many users on our sites, especially if they want
>to link vc static libraries to gcc projects or static libraries from
>gcc to vc projects). And as this patch keeps for 32-bit the old name,
>I see not much reasons to prevent this patch for 4.4. Christopher,
>what is your opinion about this?
Your patch seems to presuppose that there are no existing users of the
mingw 64 toolchain who could be using __chkstk. Is that really the
case?
I'm also not clear on what changed to make this an issue for 4.4.
cgf