[PATCH GOLD] [6/N mingw host] Add support for not keeping the files open on execute

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Thu Oct 8 01:00:00 GMT 2009


Viktor Kutuzov wrote:
>>> #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
>>
>>  Any reason why not just "#ifdef __MINGW32__" for that case?
> 
> This is some kind of a pattern which is used all over the places, so,
> people would expect to see something like this.

  Ah, I'd say there are perhaps different ways best according to whether
you're writing entirely new code that you just want to run on windows, or
modifying old code to exclude cygwin while carefully not disturbing anything else!

> However, I'm not sure about _WIN32. Do we target 64-bit Windows at all?

  Kai?  Are you listening?  (Kai Tietz looks after the 64-bit mingw port.)

    cheers,
      DaveK



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