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> Cc: ssbssa@yahoo.de, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:28:57 -0400
> 
> >   It is not supported on 32-bit Windows; such calls fail and set the
> >   last error code to ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what this means for calling these functions directly.
> 
> >From what I understand, the program will still compile and link, but the call will fail.

If that's what happens, then OK.  I was afraid GDB will refuse to run
because it doesn't find the entries for these functions in the
respective DLL.

> Anyway, if we only use them in some `#ifdef __x86_64__` (as this patch does), we won't
> have this problem.

Yes.