Windows breakage -- again

Niklas Larsson metaniklas at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 20:55:56 UTC 2014


Yes, ultimately the problem is that the mingw-gcc that is in the tarball
git has a too low target. But that is a rather larger fix than setting the
arch targetted in configure.


2014-07-17 22:50 GMT+02:00 Páli Gábor János <pali.gabor at gmail.com>:

> 2014-07-17 22:05 GMT+02:00 Niklas Larsson <metaniklas at gmail.com>:
> > The bug is that the mingw32 build is generating
> > code for i386, which lacks these assembler primitives.
>
> I think this might be a feature instead.  As I wrote earlier, on
> FreeBSD/i386, arch is set to i486 in GCC's configure script [1].
> Hence, whatever version I install from the Ports Collection, it will
> target i486 by default.
>
> [1] https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config.gcc#L2899
>
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