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Re: cleaned up ancient initialization code in lib/cygwin_crt0.c
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:41:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: cleaned up ancient initialization code in lib/cygwin_crt0.c
- References: <20080727223637.GA15309@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Jul 27 18:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> For Cygwin 1.7.x, I've cleaned up the ancient code in the file mentioned
> in the subject which attempted to deal with old binaries that supplied
> their own "user_data" information rather than using __cygwin_user_data.
> That means that I've broken backwards compatibility with binaries that
> were created before the millenium.
>
> There are a few other places where we've done that in 1.7.x so I don't
> feel bad about this at all but I thought I should document this fact
> here regardless.
Time to get rid of the v8 regexp functions?
Corinna
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