Re: gettimeofday.c windows version?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:42:52 -0800
> Cc: rogerdpack@gmail.com, bruno@clisp.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 12/23/22 22:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We do this only for mingw.org's MinGW, not for MinGW64 (where we don't
> > change the default value).
> 
> Oh. How about if we do it for MinGW64 too? Wouldn't that support 64-bit 
> Emacs builds on obsolete MS-Windows platforms? Not being an MS-Windows 
> expert I'm hesitant to propose an exact patch, but the general idea 
> should work.

It's AFAIK meaningless to do that for MinGW64, since they dropped
support of all versions of Windows older than 8, and I hear they will
drop Windows 8 as well soon (or already did?).

> Another option would be to say that if you want to run Emacs on 
> MS-Windows no longer supported by Microsoft, you need to do a 32-bit build.

That is indeed the best alternative, since it is being constantly
tested (by yours truly).