Am 1. November 2025 13:13:26 UTC schrieb Peter Maydell
<[email protected]>:
>On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 at 13:04, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Now that MSYS2 provides an implementation of the function it clashes with
>> QEMU's, resulting in a compilation error. Remove it since it doesn't seem
>> to be used anyway.
>
>The comment says it's used by _bstr_t, which presumably
>is in some Windows header or library that we're linking against.
>Our code seems to use _bstr_t a lot. Is this function definitely
>not required, or should we have something so we provide it only
>when MSYS2 does not?
I just grepped the code and it doesn't return any users. And searching the git
history it never did. Maybe some library we're linking against needs an
implementation but I can't reproduce this with my recent MSYS2 installation.
Best regards,
Bernhard
>
>thanks
>-- PMM