Add support for Windows 8, first step

Teemu Nätkinniemi tnatkinn@gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 16:57:00 GMT 2011


On 13.10.2011 19:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I just checked in a patch to find_fast_cwd_pointer which allows to
> compute fast_cwd_ptr on W8 as well.  It was pretty simple.  The only
> crucial difference in the code was the usage of "push crit-sect-addr"
> instead of "mov edi, crit-sect-addr; push edi", which changes the
> address of the next instruction by a single byte.

Well, that saved me from a lot of work :) I'll test the patches tomorrow.



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