Re: bignum branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:14:02 +0100
> 
> On Sat 04 Aug 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:54:34 +0100
> >> 
> >> If I apply the following from master to the bignum branch then a 32bit
> >> MinGW build succeeds:
> >> 
> >> 024d20f81e ("Fix compilation with mingw.org's MinGW 5.x headers")
> >> bd52f37cae ("Fix last change: only MinGW runtime 5.0.2 and later needs
> >> that.")
> >
> > That's a surprise: I thought MinGW64 uses its own headers for 32-bit
> > builds, whereas the above commits fix problems specific to mingw.org's
> > headers.  At the time, I looked at the MinGW64 headers, and my
> > conclusion was that this particular problem doesn't exist there.
> 
> We are miscommunicating.
> 
> The MSYS2 mingw64 builds (i686 and x86_64) all work correctly.
> The problem is with the MinGW (mingw.org, i686 only) builds.

Sorry for my misunderstanding, now everything is clear.

> This would all be a lot less confusing if the two unreleated projects
> had chosen more distinctive names.

Or didn't diverge in their headers.  Agreed.