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Re: [wwwdocs] gcc-8/porting_to.html
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Thomas Preudhomme <thomas dot preudhomme at foss dot arm dot com>
- Cc: JonY <10walls at gmail dot com>, NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:07:54 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] gcc-8/porting_to.html
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
JonY: what about the attached patch to document the change of behavior
of GCC on Windows depending on the configure option used?
+<h2 id="mingw">MinGW issues</h2>
+
+<p>GCC on Microsoft Windows can now be configured via
+<code>--enable-mingw-wildcard</code> or <code>--disable-mingw-wildcard</code>
+to force a specific behavior for GCC itself with regards to supporting or
+not the wildcard character. Prior versions of GCC would follow the
Perhaps put "(or not)" in parentheses?
+configuration of MinGW runtime. This behavior can still be obtained by not
+using the above options or by using
+<code>--enable-mingw-wildcard=platform</code>.</p>
Is this really going to be a question for the Porting Guide, or more
something you'd put into the release notes (aka changes.html)? I am
thinking more the latter.
This patch is approved for gcc-8/changes.html once GCC 7 has branched
and gcc-8/changes.html be put in place (though I may be doing that pro-
actively later today ;-).
Gerald