On Wed, 4 May 2022 08:00:08 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaes...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Currently we set _WIN32_WINNT at various places in the codebase; this is 
>> used to target a minimum Windows version we want to support. See also for 
>> more detailled information :
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog/using-the-windows-headers?redirectedfrom=MSDN#setting-winver-or-_win32_winnt
>> Macros for Conditional Declarations
>> "Certain functions that depend on a particular version of Windows are 
>> declared using conditional code. This enables you to use the compiler to 
>> detect whether your application uses functions that are not supported on its 
>> target version(s) of Windows."
>> 
>> However currently we have quite a lot of differing settings of _WIN32_WINNT 
>> in the codebase ; setting _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0601 (Windows 7) where possible 
>> would make sense because we have this setting already at   java_props_md.c  
>> (so targeting older Windows versions at other places is most likely not 
>> useful).
>
> Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   adjust API level to Windows 8 for security.cpp and do some cleanup

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8428

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