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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-gcc-5.4.0-3 (x86/x86_64)


On 11/11/2016 22:06, Tony Kelman wrote:
>> I have just updated the mingw-w64 cross compilers Cygwin 32bit and
>> 64bit to mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-gcc-5.4.0-3.
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> What will be left as prev? 5.4.0-2, or the last 4.9 build? Can you
> help raise https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77333? The
> interprocedural analysis that was added for gcc 5 is deeply buggy on
> mingw targets, resulting in miscompiling C++ libraries like LLVM.
> This is keeping me on gcc 4 indefinitely until it gets fixed. I may
> have to abandon gcc and switch to clang due to this, but there are
> many libraries that have broken build systems that behave incorrectly
> when you try to use clang on Windows.
> 
> I'll use time machine if that's my only way to keep getting gcc 4,
> but this bug in gcc should really be fixed or it's going to start
> showing up in cygwin-mingw-cross and msys2 packages.
> 

Jon,

Can you make 4.9 the previous version? Thanks.



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