> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:07 AM
> To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Patch for MinGW
> 
> Hmm. So the differences are:
> 
>    MinGW     _CRITICAL_SECTION       InterlockedXxx (long*)
>    Windows   _RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION   InterlockedXxx (volatile long*)
> 
> I would be inclined to hardcode the name of the critical 
> section type. I'm less sure about the InterlockedXxx 
> argument. I wouldn't be surprised if MinGW followed in 
> Windows footsteps at some point in the future.

  If the MinGW maintainers will do that, they could rename
_CRITICAL_SECTION as well. :)

> Have you tried to find out from the maintainers of the project?

  I've found that they're fixed InterlockedXXX() argument issue in CVS
recently:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1996620&group_i
d=2435&atid=102435

  So we should recover ATOMIC_OPS.cpp test to support old and new
releases of the MinGW.

Farid.

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