From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi MiKRO,   
      
   Miro KropáĠ  
   ek writes:   
   >> The great advantage with GNU/GCC 3   
   >> is that it understands my sources, producing warnings that it   
   >> can tolerates.   
   > You're missing the point completely but whatever, your choice.   
   >   
   >> Why doesn't it include 16bits libs, breaking backward compatibility ?   
   > This is not gcc maintainers' decision. The decision has been made by Vincent   
   who has disabled it. Mintlib doesn't support -mshort for decades, the same   
   goes for every lib in Sparemint RPM packages. As said, -mshort support is only   
   for the FreeMiNT    
   kernel who has to support -mshort by definition because the TOS API is 16-bit.   
   >   
   > So again, and this is my last post on this topic, you're having obsolete   
   sources and that's that.   
      
   I'll add that GNU/GCC 3 is suitable to build ATARI ST softwares.   
   GNU/GCC 4 is not, because it is too restrictive with its syntax,   
   but furthermore it doesn't implement 16bits libraries required   
   for ATARI ST softwares.   
      
   I don't want to loose ATARI ST compatibility, so I don't use it.   
      
   Thanks for your answers. The OS maintainers are making very strange   
   decisions breaking the backward compatibility with the ATARI ST !   
   Most of them probably never developed on the ATARI ST hardware :-(   
      
   Best regards,   
      
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   François LE COAT   
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