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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> Cc: tromey@adacore.com,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:17:13 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> AFAIK, wcstombs_s is only available since Vista, so I think we need a
> >> configure-time test for that, and use wcstombs as fallback.
> 
> Eli> On second thought, it should be a run-time test, so that the binary
> Eli> doesn't depend too much on the system where it was built.  Or maybe
> Eli> just use wcstombs always?
> 
> Yeah, I'm going to do that.
> 
> Is pre-Vista support needed?  I don't really know what versions of
> Windows gdb is intended to support, but the web tells me that Vista
> itself was de-supported by MS 5 years ago.  So surely pre-Vista stuff
> must be extra obsolete.  Wikipedia says Vista is in use by 0.18% of PCs.

MS obsoleted Vista, but whether and when we do is up to us.  I think
we still want to support XP, but maybe I'm wrong, or maybe people want
to change that.