Re: [wwwdocs] gcc-8/porting_to.html

[JonY <10walls at gmail dot com>]

On 03/12/2017 02:07 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 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
> 

It should be part of the release notes since it only affects GCC itself,
not the actual generated output.

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