Re: Report proper errors from the loadlibrary loader.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-01-17 17:45 skrev Bob Friesenhahn:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I'm not too fond of adding new static storage and manipulation (yet
> > another reason lt_dlopen may not be called concurrently from different
> > threads), or improved functionality without testsuite exposure that we
> > really improved.  Further, the documentation I found about GetLastError
> > states W2K as minimum version, so I hope that you checked that this
> > works with older Windows as well.  Otherwise, I am fine with the patch.
>
> It seems that GraphicsMagick has been using GetLastError() for a very 
> long time.  Certainly at least since Y2K.  There is no special provision 
> in this part of the code for anything older than Windows XP and Windows 
> 2000.  Then again, practically no one cares about Windows versions older 
> than this.

I think what has happened is that MS has abandoned WinNT and older and
are thus ignoring them in MSDN. GetLastError certainly predates Win2k
and I think it was in Win32 from from very beginning.

Cheers,
Peter

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