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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, K. Frank <kfrank29.c@gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, I'm not all that big on backward compatibility, and, as noted
> above, I don't understand what Â--enable-threads=win32 is for. ÂBut
> my gut reaction is if that the gcc implementation (with
> Â--enable-threads=win32) is sub-optimal, maybe it makes sense to
> do it "right," even at the cost of backward compatibility.
If you enable something new how does it affect backward compatibility?
Perhaps with-in the coding itself, in that case the coding would need
some method to know when it was different. If it is a run time or
library compatibility issue my suggestion to all users using a new
version of a compiler is to always rebuild the library with that
compiler. It rarely gets done but it is the users detriment if they
do not and then have issues; i.e. not a problem I worry about.
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