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Re: i686-pc-cygwin32 build of 19980628
- To: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: i686-pc-cygwin32 build of 19980628
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 22:21:22 -0500 (CDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
On 3 Jul 1998, Dave Love wrote:
> I don't have mingw32. Why do I want it? What's wrong with cygwin?
> (Bits of the Fortran runtime aren't available to a mingw32 target.)
There's nothing wrong with cygwin other than rather lousy performance.
You're right however about the various bits that are missing from the
C RTL; given enough time, someone is bound to fill those in with Win32
API. Nope, I'm not volunteering ;-)
Regards,
Mumit