Re: MPS: Win64 testers?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:50:49 +0000
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Quang Kien Nguyen <kien.n.quang@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This is not what I think we need.  First, there's no need to change
> > anything in the MSVCRT build, because AFAIK the current code "just
> 
> Yes, there is. It makes assumptions about the API implementation that
> valid implementations of the Windows API do not satisfy. Wine until last
> week is one example; given that the bug wasn't reported in 20 years, we
> can assume that no other popular application relies on this particular
> detail, so relying on it even in MSVCRT builds is unsafe.

I disagree with you, and I already stated this disagreement earlier,
so there was no reason to reiterate your POV, which was already heard
and noted.

(Your mistake is that you look at this as if Windows were a
free-software OS, where all the sources are available for study and
there are a lot of people who understand the internals enough to make
such decisions.  That is not the case, and so the fact that this code
worked for us virtually without changes since it was first written
back in 1996, and still works today in the MSVCRT builds, is, from
where I stand, an overwhelming evidence that we should only mess with
it if and when it breaks.)