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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:31:52 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 06:03:32 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > MinGW doesn't support Windows 3.x, and I think Cygwin doesn't support
> > 9x anymore.
>
> IMO, XP is probably the most ancient version that would be reasonable
> to support. Are people still developping on more ancient versions?
If we support XP, extending support to Windows 2000 or even NT 4.0
comes almost at no cost. IMO, there's no need to drop support for
platforms whose support doesn't impose any tangible maintenance
headaches.
Windows 9X can be easily recognized at run time, and the feature that
is the subject of this thread can be turned off then.