On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > 2013/1/23 Xiaofan Chen >> >> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> > >> > and, alas, microsoft has made sp2 unavailable and xp next year is >> > support >> > EOL except for embedded. so SP1 users (like me) are out of luck unless >> > they >> > have already downloaded and burned a copy of SP2 and SP3. after EOL, >> > updates >> > will no longer be available from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, >> > just >> > like with windows 9x/me/2000. >> >> Are you still using Windows XP SP1? If that is the case, I am wondering >> how you can stop those worms spreading to your computer unless your >> XP SP1 computer is isolated from the Internet. >> >> I still remember the famous W32.Blaster worm affected many university >> PCs back in 2003. > > > Exactly. I don't see the need for anything to support Windows version > whatever past its EOL. That's just a pain the shenanigans with no merit > whatsoever. That being said, XP SP1 is stone age, where XP SP3 (!) is more > like... iron age. Note this isn't at all the official MinGW-w64 point of > view, but my personal opinion on old and deprecated software.
Regardless, the header set can be controlled as Microsoft does with NTDDI_VERSION. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383745(v=vs.85).aspx for reference. In this case NTDDI_VERSION would be >= 0x05010300 before _vswprintf is declared. The user would need to set NTDDI_VERSION to the minimum supported value for his software. The user of that software would need to ensure his system meets that minimum standard. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
