Re: PATCH to support native Windows builds

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> >>DJ, will you accept Ian's patches?
> > Ian is a libiberty maintainer too, he does not need my permission.
> 
> Oh, well, then... :-)
> 
> Ian, can you check in your patches?  Is there any reason not to do that?

Sigh.  I worked out a set of patches which I thought were good, but
Zack wanted a different API:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg00227.html

So I wrote a preliminary implementation using a version of the API he
suggested:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg00872.html
and he wasn't that happy with it:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg01044.html

So I kind of lost motivation, and then my job changed and I had less
time to work on gcc.

I personally understand DJ's objections to the older CodeSourcery
patches, and I personally think that any version of my patches would
be better.  But I also understand what Zack wants to do.  I just
haven't summoned up the activation energy to dive into this again.

Ian