X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_CG,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:57:05 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: NT4? Message-ID: <20110331215705.GA5149@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20110331203416 DOT GB2606 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20110331205810 DOT GA17218 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 31, 2011 at 02:32:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:58:10 -0400 >> From: cgf >> Subject: Re: NT4? >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> > >> >At some point, would there be any (significant) performance advantage to >> >moving (some of the) platform differences to compile time? (Not for all of >> >the applications, just for the Cygwin DLL and perhaps cygserver? >> >> You mean something like: >> >> gcc -DALLOW_NT4 something-random-program.c >> >> There would be no benefit whatsoever to allowing something like that since >> there would still have to be accommodations in cygwin to handle it the >> antique platform. >> >No, not that at all. I was asking about platform specific Cygwin DLL builds. Oh, in that case: Same answer. We're trying to eliminate head standing in the code, not make more work for ourselves by introducing different variants of cygwin1.dll. 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