From: Aleksei Guzev Date: 2001-10-05T11:57:42+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22112] Re: The Windows question still remains... Intel's C++ compiler "understands" almost everything that VC++ can compile. But cygwin provides such things like "noreturn". It's a good hint, but using this word would lead to incompatibility. I think there is the standard of C++. It doesn't matter what compiler will eat my text files. My texts should conform to the standard and compiler should conform to the same standard. When a user wishes get ver-very efficient code he/she would get perfect and expensive compiler for his/her platform. If MingW or sygwin are not standart that's their problem: there WILL be a good free compiler.