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28.2; Emacs installed from package won't work with MinGW

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Message #41 received at 58318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, corwin <at> bru.st, 58318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bartosz.bubak <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#58318: 28.2; Emacs installed from package won't work with
 MinGW
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:43:16 +0200

Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org> writes:

> A quick ad-hoc fix for `yes-or-no-p' is attached.  It does not have a
> perf impact as `yes-or-no-p' will have to wait for the user input
> anyway, if okay I can push it.

There's nothing special about yes-or-no-p -- I only used that as an
example.  The same problem exists for (almost) all built-in functions.

> Oherwise another strategy would be to disable direct calls from lisp
> native code into primitives on Windows, this indeed has a performance
> impact.

Yes, that would not be ideal.

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