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Re: [PATCH] Support thread cleanup without mingwm10.dll
- From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: Volker Grabsch <vog at notjusthosting dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com>, Danny Smith <dansmister at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:37:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support thread cleanup without mingwm10.dll
- References: <20100512212010.GD25458@flap>
2010/5/12 Volker Grabsch <vog@notjusthosting.com>:
> Hello Aaron,
>
> I'm very interested in the patch you proposed some time ago:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-08/msg01207.html
>
> I'm the maintainer of the mingw-cross-env project [1] and we'd
> like to get rid of the mingwm10.dll hack. Dropping support for
> Windows 95/98/etc. is no problem for us, because those ancient
> systems aren't even supported by Microsoft anymore.
>
> So is it safe to apply your patch to the current GCC 4.5.0 release,
> or are there open issues we should be aware of?
>
>
> And one question to the GCC team:
>
> Would that patch be accepted if its functionality was optional
> via a ./configure option? ?(disabled by default)
>
> That way, GCC could retain portability to ancient Windows versions
> for those how need it, but also provide a cleaner solution for
> everyone else.
>
>
> Greets,
>
> ? ?Volker
>
>
>
> [1] http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/
>
> --
> Volker Grabsch
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>
This thread is already solved for new mingw runtimes. So please
update. For non-9X/ME there is no need for mingwm10.dll anymore. This
issue isn't related to gcc.
Regards,
Kai
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