X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:37:37 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: w32api/include/winbase.h rev. 1.101, OVERLAPPED and -std=c99 Message-ID: <20110303173737.GA16585@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D6FC5BE DOT 7030601 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D6FC5BE.7030601@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:45:50PM +0000, Pete Batard wrote: >Any application compiled in C99 mode and using OVERLAPPED is therefore >expected to break, and we have seen that issue after people upgraded >their cygwin installation and tried recompiling libusb [2]. Our current >workaround is to switch to gnu99, but with a source that is common to >both MSVC, MinGW and cygwin, GNU extensions is something we would like >to avoid. Also, the problem seems to have now spread to the latest >MinGW32 now (are they reusing cygwin's winbase.h?). It's the other way around. Cygwin's winbase.h comes from MinGW. If there is an issue you need to take it up with the MingW folks. OTOH, for Cygwin programs you shouldn't be using winbase.h at all. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple