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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Fix compilation using mingw.org's MinGW
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> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:22:14 +0100
> 
> * Removed targets
> 
> GDB no longer supports native debugging on versions of MS-Windows
> before Windows XP.

I was talking about compile time, not run time.

In any case, if we don't support systems older than XP, then why do we
load those functions dynamically at run time and call them via a
function pointer?

> So shouldn't we instead be setting _WIN32_WINNT to some
> appropriate number?

I don't mind, but where?  And also: should we make such changes on the
8.3 branch at this time?