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Re: [PATCH] [Attn Adam] Migrate libgcj to WinSock 2 on Windows


Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> writes:
> There was a similar choice facing the MinGW developers - to
> use the archaic but omnipresent CRTDLL.DLL or the newer
> and better MSVCRT.DLL, that would be there only on Win95 OSR2

This was a quite different issue -- CRTDLL is not thread-safe, and as
such is simply unusable for libgcj.

I still can't see a compelling reason to use the Winsock 2 API for
non-multicast operations.  It seems like we would lose compatability
with an (admittedly small) group of systems, but gain nothing in
return.

  - a

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