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Re: cleaned up ancient initialization code in lib/cygwin_crt0.c


On Jul 28 13:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jul 27 18:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> For Cygwin 1.7.x, I've cleaned up the ancient code in the file mentioned
> >> in the subject which attempted to deal with old binaries that supplied
> >> their own "user_data" information rather than using __cygwin_user_data.
> >> That means that I've broken backwards compatibility with binaries that
> >> were created before the millenium.
> >> 
> >> There are a few other places where we've done that in 1.7.x so I don't
> >> feel bad about this at all but I thought I should document this fact
> >> here regardless.
> >
> >Time to get rid of the v8 regexp functions?
> 
> Yes!

Done.


Corinna

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