Re: BUG: stdin not a constant (fwd)

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>]

ANAZAWA Akio <anazawa@hic-soft.co.jp> wrote:
>Anyway, I'm worndering why Cygnus's gcc couldn't accept Peter's code.
>All of other portings of gcc (and others) that I can use around here
>accepted it (gcc 2.7.0 on SPARC, 2.6.3 on FreeBSD, Sun's workshop cc,
>VC++ 4.2 and 5.0).

The important thing is not the version of gcc you're using, it's the C
library you're using.  Cygwin32 uses Cygnus's "newlib" C library.

Cygnus chose to build a new version of the C library (mostly using
existing BSD-licence freeware sources), rather than using the probably
better-quality GNU C library.  This was apparently for financial reasons.

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