Re: [h-e-w] Current word on binaries

[Jason Rumney]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> I remember the patch, I just don't understand how this issue could be
> uncovered by some change in the compiler.  To the best of my
> understanding, the original code should have bitten us a long time
> ago.
> 
> What am I missing?

Linking with binmode.obj has been the way we have avoided being bitten
by MSVC in the past, but earlier versions of GCC defaulted to binary
mode and did not contain a binmode.obj (or .o) so that was made
conditional in the makefile. More recent versions of GCC now act more
like Windows compilers, defaulting to text mode and providing a
binmode.o to link with if you want binary mode as the default.