Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-09T20:24:27Z

> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:40:17 +0100 (CET)
> From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
>
> Sorry, but from Mark's first batch of patches I got the impression that
> Codesourcery was contributing well-tested code and no further changes would
> be necessary.

There's no such thing as ``no further changes necessary'' in
programming, Mark, I'm sure you know it.

> It seems that nearly all global maintainers still think MinGW
> support is worth the additional cost, but I had to make sure we
> realise that there *is* a cost.

Yes, there _is_ a cost, but until now I'd say it was rather
insignificant.