From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Message-Id: <10108290409.AA13343@clio.rice.edu> Subject: Re: ODP: Win2K/XP fixes - implementation review To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:09:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 28, 2001 09:30:18 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > I think the set-PSP work-around is also specific to W2K. It doesn't > hurt, but it slows down by issuing several software interrupts. > The FSEXT stuff doesn't get called unless the application uses the > extensions. By default, FSEXT doesn't get linked in. > > I agree that it's better to test for the presence of bugs directly, > but this could lead to many tests and many flag variables which tell > what bugs are present. If we can lump the bugs in a couple of > categories, I think it's okay; otherwise, lets stay with version test. > > For now, it sounds like we could get away with only 2 categories: > NT+W2K and W2K-specific (the latter includes XP). Maybe we should > postpone these decisions a bit more. I'm not sure we know the whole > extent of the problems right now, although we are close. For now, I will work on adding the _os_true_ver global and fixing references to it. We need that global anyway. The dynamic checking can wait (it would currently be one additional flag).