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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/w32/subproc/w32err.c b/w32/subproc/w32err.c
index e0bb110..7f68f59 100644
--- a/w32/subproc/w32err.c
+++ b/w32/subproc/w32err.c
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
+#include "make.h"
#include "w32err.h"
/*
@@ -26,14 +28,24 @@ this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
* Notes/Dependencies: I got this from
* comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
*/
-char *
+const char *
map_windows32_error_to_string (DWORD ercode) {
-/* __declspec (thread) necessary if you will use multiple threads on MSVC */
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-__declspec (thread) static char szMessageBuffer[128];
-#else
-static char szMessageBuffer[128];
-#endif
+/*
+ * We used to have an MSVC-specific `__declspec (thread)' qualifier
+ * here, with the following comment:
+ *
+ * __declspec (thread) necessary if you will use multiple threads on MSVC
+ *
+ * However, Make was never multithreaded on Windows (except when
+ * Ctrl-C is hit, in which case the main thread is stopped
+ * immediately, so it doesn't matter in this context). The functions
+ * on sub_proc.c that started and stopped additional threads were
+ * never used, and are now #ifdef'ed away. Until we need more than
+ * one thread, we have no problems with the following buffer being
+ * static. (If and when we do need it to be in thread-local storage,
+ * the corresponding GCC qualifier is `__thread'.)
+ */
+ static char szMessageBuffer[128];
/* Fill message buffer with a default message in
* case FormatMessage fails
*/
@@ -43,6 +55,7 @@ static char szMessageBuffer[128];
* Special code for winsock error handling.
*/
if (ercode > WSABASEERR) {
+#if 0
HMODULE hModule = GetModuleHandle("wsock32");
if (hModule != NULL) {
FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE,
@@ -54,6 +67,9 @@ static char szMessageBuffer[128];
NULL);
FreeLibrary(hModule);
}
+#else
+ fatal(NILF, szMessageBuffer);
+#endif
} else {
/*
* Default system message handling