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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:01 -0400
> 
> I doubt we're going to rename all the w32-foo functions and variables,
> so for better or worse, "w32" is most likely the official name we will
> use even when building against the w64 API.

Then I vote for leaving this particular variable alone.