[Patches] Extension building on Win32 using Gnu C

Daniel Berlin dan@cgsoftware.com
Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:30:50 -0700 (PDT)


> 
>   Were older versions of the compiler broken as well? 

Most likely.
>  Do you know if
> this problem was shared by all versions <= 2.91.*? 

The only version <= 2.91 that might have a chance at not being buggy would
be 2.8.1, but nobody uses it.
>  I'd hate to
> exclude too many versions of the compiler, but I don't know how common
> older versions are. 

These days, the earliest you'll see is 2.91.66, which corresponds to egcs
1.1.
>  I have little idea how often people using the GCC
> ports to Windows are willing to upgrade their compiler; if they
> commonly stay up to date this might be the best approach.

People who are concerned about stability tend to stay one major
release behind, mainly because before EGCS became the official GCC, major
releases often had very annoying bugs.

>   Should the #warning be made into a #error?
>   Thanks!
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
> -- 
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at beopen.com>
> BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member
> 
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