Techwiki:MinGW wishlist

A list of features we'd really like to see in MinGW

gcc

• SEH. Really
• __uuidof and __declspec(uuid)
• native support for __int8, __int16, __int32 and __int64
• __ptr32 and __ptr64

g++

• SEH-compatible unwinding. Also SEH
• Microsoft-compatible ABI
  • ktietz of mingw-w64 is already working on compatible symbol name decoration

ld

• COMDATs and identical COMDAT folding
• alias __image_base__ to __ImageBase
• honor linker directives embedded in object files (.drectve), especially /EXPORT and /DEFAULTLIB
• recognize the libraryname.lib pattern as equivalent to liblibraryname.a