[fpc-devel] Changing Windows API A routines in SysUtils to W in Windows NT

Thaddy thaddy at thaddy.com
Thu Feb 9 15:54:01 CET 2012


On 7-2-2012 12:20, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> That depends on decisions still to be made. If we also support 1-byte 
> RTL, it will still be on the level of winNT. But I do think that a 
> win9x vs winnt split is unavoidable in time. Specially since otherwise 
> one gets in the current situation that win9x is occasionally fixed for 
> a release, but in reality constantly broken in between. 
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I do not think that you will break anything if you make W api or A api 
default based on platform. This can be switched in the winapi units. 
That will take little effort, as I explained: we did it already for KOL.


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