Re: GDB 7.99.91 MinGW compilation error in cli-script.c

Joel Brobecker
2017-05-17T14:31:39Z

> > I think the best solution would be a check at configure time. I think
> > it's a function that can be quite handy, so it would be unfortunate if
> > we had to avoid using it, especially if it's easy to implement ourselves
> > for MinGW. A configure check would be more robust than checking for
> > MinGW or _GLIBCXX_HAVE_BROKEN_VSWPRINTF specifically, in case another
> > platform needs the replacement too, or if the define changes at some
> > point.
>
> I've meanwhile learned that the latest release 5.0 of MinGW runtime
> solves this problem.

Version 5.0 was first release Oct of 2016, so about 6 months ago.
Is that sufficient to consider this issue as being resolved, or
do we consider it as blocking for the 8.0 release?

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Joel