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Re: introduce --enable-mingw-full32 to default to --large-address-aware
On Oct 9, 2018, JonY <10walls@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is fine to turn it on by default in 32bit MinGW (i686-*-mingw*), but
> leave the defaults as is for others like Cygwin, I am not too sure of
> the effects for Cygwin.
Cygwin already has --large-address-aware enabled, without an option to
disable it. That makes sense, considering that Cygwin targets Unix
programs, unlikely to have Windows-specific pointer assumptions.
That's why I phrased the option, and implemented it, as specific to
mingw.
Now, if you wish it to affect Cygwin as well, I could implement that,
and drop -mingw from the option name. I'd retain the current defaults
of each target, unless there's a strong reason to change them.
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