wine-1.5.20 regression compared to 1.5.19 and previous; MinGW/gcc 4.7.0 segfaults under wineconsole

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2012-12-28 13:45+0100 Frédéric Delanoy wrote:

> Other users have issues with wine but they don't generally complain as
> loudly as you did.

It is possible I was not cautious enough with my tone, but let's leave
it like this. Wine-1.5.20 has introduced an obvious regression for an
important Windows app (the MinGW gcc compiler for Windows) that has
been working for years for prior Wine versions.

Alan
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