--- Dave Korn wrote: > > Well I didn't finish rolling the lot over the weekend owing to reasons I'll > explain on the talk list, but I'm saying yes anyway. First thing I'll do > will > be reroll a 3.4.4-2 with the fix for PR-whateveritis about the C++ > strings-vs-dlls problem. Once that's done and seems ok, I'll look at making > an experimental package from one of the gcc 4 series. (Anyone got any > preferences?) > >
Dave, The octave and octave-forge packages will greatly benefit from the first bug fix. I'll produce new releases ASAP following a gcc 3.4.4-2 bug-fix release. Thanks for signing on to this important maintenance responsibility. Do you suppose there is any chance of releasing libstdc++ as a dll for gcc 3.4.4-2 ? This would greatly reduce the size of the octave and octave-forge packages. There is also some consensus that octave performance is hampered by the sjlj exception handling scheme. I wonder if it is necessary that mingw and cygwin use the same method - perhaps mingw could carry sjlj forward as it is more important for win32 programming, while cygwin could plan a transition to dwarf2, which perhaps aligns better with the paradigm of porting linux apps. Just a thought. Jim Phillips [Dave, sorry I sent the first copy to you instead of the ML]
