> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Sebor [mailto:msebor@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:07 AM
> To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Patch for MinGW
>
> Hmm. So the differences are:
>
> MinGW _CRITICAL_SECTION InterlockedXxx (long*)
> Windows _RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION InterlockedXxx (volatile long*)
>
> I would be inclined to hardcode the name of the critical
> section type. I'm less sure about the InterlockedXxx
> argument. I wouldn't be surprised if MinGW followed in
> Windows footsteps at some point in the future.
If the MinGW maintainers will do that, they could rename
_CRITICAL_SECTION as well. :)
> Have you tried to find out from the maintainers of the project?
I've found that they're fixed InterlockedXXX() argument issue in CVS
recently:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1996620&group_i
d=2435&atid=102435
So we should recover ATOMIC_OPS.cpp test to support old and new
releases of the MinGW.
Farid.
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