[m-rev.] for review: further MinGW README changes

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Paul Bone wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:28:21PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>>
>> For review by anyone.
>>
>> Branches: main, 11.01
>>
>> Further work on the MinGW README file.
>>
>> README.MinGW:
>> 	Mention that the low-level C parallel grades do not currently
>> 	work on Windows.
>
> Does anyone know why?

Because linking an executable in those grades currently fails on
Windows.

Based on the output from the linker it appears to be a problem
with the use of GCC's __thread extension.  (The MinGW compiler
has been updated since I last tried it, so maybe it works now?)

Julien.
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