Re: Interest in nt_load_image?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:25 -0400
> 
> > I don't see the point.  We have enough real issues to worry about,
> > let's not waste precious resources on trying to figure out whether the
> > 9X code can be dropped.
> 
> I don't see what resources you're talking about.

Resources needed to try to figure out whether we need the
compatibility code, devise probes, waiting for someone to holler and
remembering to check if someone did...

> >From where I stand, you're suggesting to "waste precious resources"
> trying to make the code hypothetically work in Windows-98, whereas I'm
> suggesting we don't do that and let other people come whining if they
> suffer the consequences.

There are no consequences.  The paradigm of loading a shared library
dynamically and testing whether doing that succeeded is so boilerplate
in the w32 code that it never takes more than a simple copy/pasta to
add one more.

> > One day it will die of natural causes, no need to invest even
> > a minimal effort in that.
> 
> I'm not sure how that would happen

It will happen when 32-bit builds will die.  2038 at the latest.