Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:23:12PM -0600, Aaron Klotz wrote:
> On 10/12/2016 5:09 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > 
> > This one is a non-argument: supporting XP/Vista isn't preventing us from
> > using the latest Visual Studio. It only prevents us from using some newer
> > win32 APIs.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It does prevent us from using C++11 thread-safe "magic" statics in VS2015 as
> they are not properly supported on Windows XP [1].

That is related to DllMain, which is arguably a win32 detail.

Mike