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Re: __MSVCRT_VERSION__ (was: MinGw, opendir() stat64() and related)

by Eli Zaretskii :: Rate this Message:

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> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:12:36 +0000
> From: Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@...>
>
> /mingw/include/sys/stat.h tells you that, for struct __stat64 and
> _stat64(), you must specify:
>
> #define __MSVCRT_VERSION__  0x0601 /* or greater */
>
> (thus entering into a contract that you accept that your application
> will not be supported on systems which don't provide at least this
> level of msvcrt.dll compatibility).

Could you please tell how this works in practice?  Will the resulting
executable simply refuse to run if msvcrt.dll at least that new is
present, or will they run and sometimes crash due to
incompatibilities?

(If this is documented somewhere, please just point me to that
document.)

TIA

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