On 3/18/26 18:11, Pali Rohár wrote:
The point of those my changes was to provide the last missing time functions for x64 builds, so we would have all of them for all msvcrt builds on all windows versions.
What is the value in it?
In my opinion those changes, including the documentation one, are rather small and isolated.
The same can be said about hundreds of other functions. If we applied that logic to all of them and accepted them, they would no longer be small or isolated when taken together.
So I think that it does not increase complexity of code compared with previous time function changes which were rather larger and I have not received from you negative feedback on it.
Well, I would prefer to drop those changes as well, but I respect that other maintainers have a different opinion. If you want my honest opinion, I do not see any value in "improving" compatibility with vintage OSes like this. I can understand the desire to have the basics working so that someone doing software archaeology can use mingw-w64, but we already have that. Going after every corner case to make it more "compatible" with vintage OSes does not warrant any additional complexity to me.
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