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Re: Longstanding __USE_W32_SOCKETS hiccup.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I haven't been paying close attention here but why are we bothering to
> accommodate use of winsock2.h and time.h. This is really only for
> Cygwin itself right?
Nope.
> Otherwise, I don't think we should worry about people trying to mix
> winsock.h in true Cygwin programs.
It seems to have worked well enough for GNAT in gcc-4.3.2 and earlier, but GCC
HEAD has undergone some sort of refactoring that means we now get a duplicate
definition of timeval during compilation of libada. This is aimed at fixing
that problem.
cheers,
DaveK