On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:01:42AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM Andre Muezerie
> <andre...@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now that mbuf is compiling on Windows, this library can be enabled as
> > well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andre...@linux.microsoft.com>
> 
> The test-regex app can probably be compiled too.
> Yet.. why do you want to enable this library on Windows?
> 
> Support for this device class is defacto deprecated, as no vendor is
> providing recent hardware implementing this feature.
> 
> Also note that it was not built with clang on Windows so far (I did
> not double check this assertion, I just based on the fact this patch
> removes a is_windows, and not a is_ms_compiler).
> 
> 

I was not aware this code was deprecated. You're right that it was not
being compiled with Clang. This was just part of the effort to increase
code compatibility on Windows.

I see no harm in enabling it, but at the same time, there's no clear
benefit either. I'll let you decide what to do with this.

> -- 
> David Marchand

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