Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

[Peter Rosin]

Ralf Wildenhues skrev:
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:38:28AM CEST:
> > Ah, ok. That's bad. The misleading name i586-mingw32msvc-gcc caught
> > me. Again. What in the world is "msvc" doing in there?
>
> Somebody (Brian Dessent?) explained it nicely, recently on some mailing
> list that I skim; I forgot where, though, sorry.  IIRC it denotes the
> MSVCRT runtime as opposed to the older CRTDLL one.

That would be this list... :-)

BTW, thanks to Brian for the explanation (I never responded, sorry about that).

Cheers,
Peter