Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MemoryBarrier needed for dbus

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore schrieb:
> On 24 September 2011 10:42, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I propose to keep our current policy, which is: patches should always
> > be portable, anything else is a "hack" and thus a $(SED) action. With
> > portable I don't mean that it sould work with win32/win64, but also
> > on any other platform.
[...]
> Agree entirely.
> 
> > The idea is that ideally, all patches would eventually move into
> > upstream, or have at least a good chance of being a sensible proposal
> > to upstream.
> 
> It's just that I would consider the mingw32 project to be the final
> upstream for a patch like this. Patching the dbus sources fixes it for
> dbus, patching win32api makes this function available to any project.
> The latter seems to closer to the spirit of our policy.

That's true. In that sense, patching win32api would also
be perfectly okay.

However, I don't quite see the connection between this
issue and our plan to support 64-bit. Am I overlooking
something, or did I just misunderstand you?


Greets,
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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