Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-24 Thread gary chartier
Please take me off of your email list. Thank You. From: LIU Hao Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 10:42 AM To: mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net ; Christian Franke ; Martin Storsjö Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98 在

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-24 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
I see you imported this now, thanks very much! -- Jonathan ___ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread sotrdg sotrdg
i am still using windows 95 Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: Christian Franke Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 10:05:58 AM To: mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win9

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread LIU Hao
在 2023-10-23 22:05, Christian Franke 写道: +1 from me because this patch also would bring back support for Win XP which (at least) also lacks GetTickCount64(). Currently even a C++ "Hello World!" program using std::cout does not run on Win XP because the C++ exception handling uses this winpthre

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 23.10.23 um 07:41 schrieb LIU Hao: Our decision is that the change shall be within a `#if ...` block. Whether it is ``#if !defined(_WIN32_WINNT)` or `#if _WIN32_WINNT < 0x0500` is questionable, but the patch will not be accepted otherwise. The problem with this is that this is a library th

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread Christian Franke
LIU Hao wrote: 在 2023/10/23 15:50, Jonathan Schleifer 写道: Could you please explain why a compile time check would be preferable over a runtime check here? The cost of this runtime check should not be noticeable, most likely not even measurable. Doing runtime check seems extremely common on Win

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread Martin Storsjö
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, LIU Hao wrote: 在 2023/10/23 15:50, Jonathan Schleifer 写道: Could you please explain why a compile time check would be preferable over a runtime check here? The cost of this runtime check should not be noticeable, most likely not even measurable. Doing runtime check seems e

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-23 Thread LIU Hao
在 2023/10/23 15:50, Jonathan Schleifer 写道: Could you please explain why a compile time check would be preferable over a runtime check here? The cost of this runtime check should not be noticeable, most likely not even measurable. Doing runtime check seems extremely common on Windows, and I've se

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-22 Thread LIU Hao
在 2023/10/21 18:27, Jonathan Schleifer 写道: I really don't see why not to be honest, given how Windows has always maintained forward and backward compatibility. It's not like this patch adds a lot of cost, neither in binary size, nor in code size, nor in maintainability problems. And it's everyth

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-22 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 21.10.23 um 12:15 schrieb Biswapriyo Nath: May I ask who is still using Windows 98 in year 2023? I'm using it for a retro game project where I'm writing a 3D engine for 3dfx Voodoo cards, which work best on Windows 98 SE. I don't see any problem in running an offline Windows 98 system in

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-21 Thread Biswapriyo Nath
May I ask who is still using Windows 98 in year 2023? Why does mingw-w64 still support that ancient operating system? ___ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public

[Mingw-w64-public] [PATCH] Make winpthreads work on Win98

2023-10-21 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
The following patch makes winpthreads work on Win98: https://objfw.nil.im/downloads/winpthreads_win98.patch I've been running with this patch since the beginning of the year (when I wrote it) without any problems whatsoever, so it would be great if this trivial patch could be imported. -- Jo