[flac-dev] patch for win_utf8_io.c: vsnprintf_s vs. MinGW

[Federico Miyara]

Erik,

Many people still use WinXP and will be using it for a while. This may 
be a reason.

Regards,

Federico Miyara


On 18/09/2014 6:53, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> lvqcl wrote:
>
>> Oops. It seems that vsnprintf_s isn't always available on MinGW platform:
>> MinGW declares this function only if MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API macro is defined.
>> That's because WinXP version of msvcrt.dll doesn't contain secure functions
>> like vsnprintf_s.
> I thought Micorsoft had recently stopped supporting WinXP. If Micorsoft
> has stopped supporting it I see no reason for FLAC to support it.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik