On Saturday 09 November 2024 22:39:08 LIU Hao wrote:
> 在 2024-11-09 02:23, Pali Rohár 写道:
> > On Friday 08 November 2024 19:49:24 Lasse Collin wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I apologize for the hassle. :-( It's a security issue that (I think) is
> > > only half-public, so I didn't want to post to the public mailing list.
> > > Apparently the tiny group of people I discussed this was too small (all
> > > are in the Cc list now). I don't know a lot about Windows so I rely on
> > > others to check my ideas.
> 
> Frankly speaking, I am not too interested by Windows 98. '_mingw.h' used to
> define `_WIN32_WINNT` to Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 (both are
> 0x0502), and that's really the minimal supported platform.
> 
> As there's real security risk, the costs of maintenance and issues of
> interoperability with ancient systems may be tolerable.

I agree with this.

Anyway, as a side note, IIRC there should not be an interop issue with
older systems, __wgetmainargs is working also on ancient Windows 98 with
its system msvcrt.dll library, that function IIRC fallbacks to ansi
variant.

So no need to care about this part at all.


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