https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62215

--- Comment #5 from Jeffrey Armstrong <jeffrey.armstrong at approximatrix dot 
com> ---
While checking for MinGW (or MinGW-W64) (or non-POSIX Cygwin if it's a
thing...) would allow this to be fixed for Windows, it would continue to assume
that any other C runtime would have a POSIX-compliant "rename()" function.  I
would think that could be dangerous. That said, I can't think of another C
runtime that doesn't provide a POSIX-compliant "rename()" function other than
some versions of the OpenWatcom C runtime (I'm pretty sure you guys don't care
about that) and any MS-DOS or OS/2 C runtimes. 

Is there a big cost or danger to "unlink()" the existing file first?  POSIX
"rename()" is going to do that anyway; my patch (and GNU Fortran < 4.9) simply
does the deleting explicitly.

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