Re: is Vax addressing sane today

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> schrieb:

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> schrieb:

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I am currently in the position of needing to take some code
written for Linux/Unix and get it running in MS Windows.
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My attempts to use MSVC have been frustrating, because of some
limitations of that environment.  The two most prominent are
these:  long double is only 64 bits, and there are no integer
types of 128 bits that I could find.

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Depending on what you need to to, you can give MinGW-w64 a try.
It works either as a cross-compiler from Linux or on Windows using
msys2 or Cygwin.

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Thank you for these suggestions.  I have started to explore
mingw but not yet the others.  Is there a difference between
mingw and mingw-w64, do you know?

One is a fork of the other, I believe.

Also do you know if mingw
is compatible with MSVC, as long as long double is not used?

I believe that Mingw-w64 uses the Windows ABI, but that is a
belief, not something I know first-hand; I haven't looked
at the assembly.