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Re: [patch i386 mingw g++.dg gcc.dg]: Set -mms-bitfields as default for native windows targets
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:55:53 +0000
- Subject: Re: [patch i386 mingw g++.dg gcc.dg]: Set -mms-bitfields as default for native windows targets
- References: <BANLkTim30Qgovfpwu2kAP0mio_1x2ntftQ@mail.gmail.com> <201104131136.48795.pedro@codesourcery.com> <BANLkTi=-BmxMPSt-cfwQ99YSPgOgMRkEmw@mail.gmail.com> <201104131149.35301.pedro@codesourcery.com>
On 13/04/2011 11:49, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2011 11:43:43, Kai Tietz wrote:
>>> This is a default ABI change (IIRC, when the option was
>>> introduced, it was left off as default so to not break the ABI).
>>>
>>> Shouldn't we advertise it somewhere?
>
>> Yes, I did recently a lot of abi changing for mingw's targets. They
>> all will need a nice description (and possible ways to get old default
>> behavior) in changes.html
>>
>> I collect them for later. Or do you mean it should be noted earlier?
>
> As long as it's mentioned somewhere before a release, that's fine
> with me.
>
> (Though mentioning changes as you do them has better chances of
> something not getting forgotten, or in case you end up
> unavailable. Hope not! :-) )
Now we're coming up for a release.... did this happen?
cheers,
DaveK