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Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature


Hi Fergus, you wrote:

: I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.
: 
: Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

MS should have made the jump to >32bit at NT4, at a time several other
unices already were 64bit, and provide a real useful POSIX before forcing
all of us to NT, saving all this hassle!


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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