(In reply to Iain Buclaw from comment #3) > Those patches aren't essential. The recent mingw builds are evident of that. > However I am aware of some essential runtime fixes in those patches (some > TLS related) but almost all are unsuitable for inclusion. Ian, I didn't understand your point, it seems self contradictory. You say the patches aren't essential, and yet at the same time that there are "some essential runtime fixes in those patches" ?..