RFR (XS) 8221824: Build failure with MSVS 2013 after JDK-8218418

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Apr 2 14:03:48 UTC 2019


On 02/04/2019 14:58, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> :
> Yes, that's understood. It does not mean we cannot make effort to keep it buildable :)
I would prefer if we just dropped support for building with this really 
old SDK as it creates a tax for everyone touching Windows specific code.

>
>> Unfortunately there is long history of using #ifndef and/or GetProcAddress to make use of newer
>> features while still building with older SDKs. So this wouldn't be the first. I don't object to your
>> patch of course,
> Okay, thanks. jdk-submit okay'ed the patch, I am going to push it shortly.
I think there need to be follow to only specify this flag when running 
on Windows 10 or later.

-Alan


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