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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Is 'extern' necessary?
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Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> writes:
> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> Or you finally admitting that perhaps the MingW library /is/ really
>> designed to work with gcc?
>
> They provide a modified gcc to work with Microsoft's C runtime.  Most of
> the C library used by MinGW for sure was *not* designed to work with gcc.

The stdio.h header file BartC quoted is clearly part of MinGW, and
apparently was designed specifically to work with MinGW's version of
gcc.

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