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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
        "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Windows 2000 patch for utime.c
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:16:41 +1000
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Sorry guys, now for my 2 cents worth. Sorry it's no longer accepted in OZ,
so I am probably out of luck, but here I go anyway:

> > > If we would have such variable it could be initialized only once at
> > > startup.
> >
> > Yes, I understand that.  But IMHO global variables should not be
> > introduced as a matter of habit.

Instead of re-inventing the wheel Allegro has support for a number of
different OS's and it tests for these and sets an appropriate variable and
you get to the variable via a function call if I remeber correctly.  It may
be usefull to look at this to see how this works as Allegro now works on
DJGPP, VC++, GNU on Linux  and looks like some other platforms as well.

I agree with Eli that we should fix the problems correctly now and then come
back and effectively optimize / future proof (if it can be done) for all of
the platforms DJGPP runs on. I have been involved in this sort of concept
with an embedded poker machine and it took some time and effort to figure
out which way was a good way to implement it. The problem is that if we
start doing this now we may re-code and introduce a number of new bugs
instead of fixing the exisiting ones.

I have added this to the list of outstanding issues with DJGPP and Win 2K.
This way it will hopefully not fall between the cracks.

Andrew