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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:52:39 -0600
From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r434327 - in /apr/apr/trunk: CHANGES
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Mladen Turk wrote:
> 
> Anyhow, the entire idea of modifying calling process msvcrt
> tables sounds a little bit 'hacking' to me, and always will.
> Somehow I don't see that as a right way to go.

The Windows PE format is a low-level well defined construct.  I don't quite
see what issue you have with that?  You aren't replacing what the msvcrt
has constructed, you are adding.  IIUC this should even interoperate with
boost or the pthread library, unless I'm missing something important.