Re: thread-safety: gmtime_r(), localtime_r()

On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 3:43 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> I moved the _POSIX_C_SOURCE definition for MinGW from the header file to
> a command-line option (-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE).  This matches the treatment
> of _GNU_SOURCE and similar.

I was trying to figure out what else -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE does to MinGW.
Enables __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO, apparently, but I don't know if we
were using that already, or if it matters.  I suppose if it ever shows
up as a problem, we can explicitly disable it.

. o O ( MinGW is a strange beast.  Do we want to try to keep the code
it runs as close as possible to what is used by MSVC?  I thought so,
but we can't always do that due to missing interfaces (though I
suspect that many #ifdef _MSC_VER tests are based on ancient versions
and now bogus).  But it also offers ways to be more POSIX-y if we
want, and then we have to decide whether to take them, and make it
more like a separate platform with different quirks... )

> I think this is about as good as it's going to get, and we need it to
> be, so I propose to commit this version if there are no further concerns.

LGTM.