On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 03:50:52PM +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > It no longer serves a useful purpose.
> > ---
> >
> > AFAICT this was added for MinGW at the beginning of the century.
> > MSVC does not need it, mingw-w64 does not need it. Some old Cygwin
> > 1.7.x I had lying around did need it, however, a freshly installed
> > Cygwin 2.5.x does not need it. MinGW 3.22.1 needs it, which probably
> > only shows how obsolete MinGW really is. MinGW 3.22.1 is supposed to
> > be the last release before switching to the 5.x branch. One can only
> > hope (expect?) that they'll be a tad more current then.
> 
> Actually, it's not about how current MinGW is - it does have the necessary 
> functions (the _aligned_malloc) function. The necessary function is only 
> available from XP though, and MinGW still seems to default to win2k as 
> baseline. Configuring with --extra-cflags=-D__MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0700 does 
> not need the memalign hack.
> 
> See https://lists.libav.org/pipermail/libav-devel/2012-June/029342.html 
> for a discussion on the matter.

Is there a reason why we haven't had configure add that value to
CPPFLAGS for MinGW yet?  It seems almost too simple a fix for it not to
have been done yet..

Diego
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