From a5a8e250d5fc17b3e4a7955f2c896f2b050b2960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:08:41 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] etc/PROBLEMS: Update problems specific to MS-Windows. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index a1df7eebd18..1f9200febbf 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1917,6 +1917,16 @@ MSDN: includes a short description of MSLU and a link where it can be downloaded. +** Emacs refuses to start on Windows 9X because ctime64 function is missing + +This is a sign that Emacs was compiled with MinGW runtime version +4.0.x or later. These versions of runtime call in their startup code +the ctime64 function, which does not exist in MSVCRT.DLL, the C +runtime shared library, distributed with Windows 9X. + +A workaround is to build Emacs with MinGW runtime 3.x (the latest +version is 3.20). + ** A few seconds delay is seen at startup and for many file operations This happens when the Net Logon service is enabled. During Emacs @@ -2084,7 +2094,7 @@ The function set-time-zone-rule gives incorrect results for many non-US timezones. This is due to over-simplistic handling of daylight savings switchovers by the Windows libraries. -** Files larger than 4GB report wrong size +** Files larger than 4GB report wrong size in a 32-bit Windows build Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as -- 2.39.5