Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Errors in winnt.h - memory clobber

2013-03-29 Thread dw
> Please take the hostility down a notch. I don't see why it's necessary. I apologize (to both you and Kai) if that's how this came across. That was not my intent. I routinely use weekends to work on new puzzles. The reason I suggested it would give him plenty to think about over the weekend

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS absolute path conflict with configure tests

2013-03-29 Thread Jon
> >> > I'm toying with lzo on Windows 7 32-bit (mingwbuilds 4.8.0 and rubenvb > >> > 4.7.2) and want to create a solid patch for configure.ac, but my autoconf > >> > fu hovers around the nano-fu level. While the failure is not a mingw-w64 > >> > bug, you guys likely have a better battle-tested solu

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Errors in winnt.h - memory clobber

2013-03-29 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2013/3/29 dw > While I haven't heard back from you about my response re volatile, I'm > going to go ahead and write my post about why I think my understanding > of the memory clobber is correct. Should give you plenty to think about > over the weekend. > Please take the hostility down a notch.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Errors in winnt.h

2013-03-29 Thread dw
> I agree that where the code would really be suboptimal, the intrinsics > should be implemented using more efficient means. However, I doubt > that, e.g., _InterlockedAdd() has the same problem. Each intrinsic > should be evaluated separately. Fair enough. When the first couple of intrinsics

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Errors in winnt.h - memory clobber

2013-03-29 Thread dw
While I haven't heard back from you about my response re volatile, I'm going to go ahead and write my post about why I think my understanding of the memory clobber is correct. Should give you plenty to think about over the weekend. In my original post, I said that I wanted to add the memory cl

[Mingw-w64-public] [Notice] gendef, genidl and genpeimg is now GPLv3 or later

2013-03-29 Thread JonY
Hello, After careful thought, we have decided to make gendef, genidl and genpeimg use GPLv3 or later for all future releases. The change brings us closer to the Free software community, guaranteeing Free access to the source code for all in perpetuity, especially for the software developers and c

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS absolute path conflict with configure tests

2013-03-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Jon wrote: >> > I'm toying with lzo on Windows 7 32-bit (mingwbuilds 4.8.0 and rubenvb >> > 4.7.2) and want to create a solid patch for configure.ac, but my autoconf >> > fu hovers around the nano-fu level. While the failure is not a mingw-w64 >> > bug, you guys li

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] Fwd: Re: Better mingw support

2013-03-29 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2013/3/29 Earnie Boyd > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:55 AM, LRN wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 29.03.2013 15:15, Алексей Павлов wrote: > Question #2: If MinGW64 'uname' will not be available any time > soon, is there any problem in using the --build

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS absolute path conflict with configure tests

2013-03-29 Thread Jon
> > I'm toying with lzo on Windows 7 32-bit (mingwbuilds 4.8.0 and rubenvb > > 4.7.2) and want to create a solid patch for configure.ac, but my autoconf > > fu hovers around the nano-fu level. While the failure is not a mingw-w64 > > bug, you guys likely have a better battle-tested solution than my

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] Fwd: Re: Better mingw support

2013-03-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Caution: MSYSTEM=MINGW64 will be used for identifying > i86_64-pc-mingw64 in config.guess; I submitted a patch for it to the > maintainers of config.guess and config.sub last year. Lacking the caffeine this morning s/i86_64/x86_64/ -- Earni

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] Fwd: Re: Better mingw support

2013-03-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:55 AM, LRN wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29.03.2013 15:15, Алексей Павлов wrote: Question #2: If MinGW64 'uname' will not be available any time soon, is there any problem in using the --build option when you configure? >>> I

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Errors in winnt.h

2013-03-29 Thread Václav Zeman
On 28 March 2013 22:32, dw wrote: > On 3/28/2013 3:52 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: >> Why are those intrinsics even implemented using inline assembler >> instead of GCC's own built-in functions like __builtin_ffs() for >> _BitScanForward(), __sync_add_and_fetch() for _InterlockedAdd(), etc.? > Actually,

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] GCC 4.8 and -fPIC warning being treated as error

2013-03-29 Thread Christer Solskogen
On 23/3/13 8:47 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > What gives? Don't know. I reported the same error on gcc-help the 10th of January this year. -- chs -- Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to g