[EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  8 14:47, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8
> > since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021.
> 
> I saw that.  It did not look alarming.  It basically was like "you'll be on your own".
> 
> > Supporting older OSes requires to keep workarounds in the code and
> 
> Understood.  But you did not answer my question:
> 
> > Are you saying that W7 and W8 would be actively rejected?
> 
> and I meant by Cygwin?

Not "rejected" as such.  It just won't run correctly anymore on W7/8,
because

- the special treatment required for those OSes isn't in the DLL
  anymore, and
- the DLL uses functions not available on these OSes.


Corinna