[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] FFICallback crashes windows spur i386 vm

[Holger Freyther]

> On 17 Jan 2017, at 19:43, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicolas, Hi Esteban,

Hi all,



> 
>     so is it feasible to insist on clang?  The mingw compiler is ancient, so my preference is to move to clang.  If so, could someone update the HowToBuild to describe the problem with mingw and how to install the clang-based toolchain?


> from cygwin (or cygwin64) shell:
> 
> $ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc --version
> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 5.4.0
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


maybe I am missing something but GCC 5.4 was released in Summer 2016 and is
still supported. Couldn't it be that the better optimizers in GCC expose an
issue that clang is not capable of exposing (yet?)?

just my two cents

	holger