Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Incidentally, does the Windows-x64 port* of gcc perpetuate this idiocy? That's a silly question... Of course it does, it's not gcc's decision to make. If gcc were to act in a way that is fundamentally broken from the platform specification it would be utterly useless as a compiler -- calling any system function or anything else built by the native tools would have wrong arguments, structs would have different layouts, you'd get all kinds of random crashes. > (*...which may not exist, if so s/does/will/) It's a work in progress. The gcc and binutils ports are mostly done, but work remains on porting the runtimes and various support libraries. <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/22697> Brian
