RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

Christopher Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
Thu Apr 8 16:04:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:00:30PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:41:10AM -0600, E. Weddington wrote:
>>On 8 Apr 2004 at 11:27, Richard Kenner wrote:
>>>So are you saying you don't actually know what it does?  and you still
>>>want to rip it out?  .....
>>>
>>>No, I'm saying I know exactly what it does.
>>
>>Good.  Can you enlighten me, then?  That was my original question....
>
>The source code is pretty clear.  Have you looked at it?
>
>I'm sure Richard will correct me if I'm wrong but this is just a way
>to store standard GCC environment variables in the registry.

Actually, more precisely, it is a way to retrieve
environment-variable-like information from the registry.

cgf



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