Re: Use GetErrorMode if it is available (on Windows Vista and above).

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:03:04AM CET:
> Den 2010-01-12 21:19 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> >* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:00:17AM CET:
[... long and nice explanation ...]

> >That sounds like we may simply need to document that the client code
> >needs to employ locking so that libltdl functions are not called
> >simultaneously as function set X, X being?
> 
> See above, that would require all other threads to be stopped during the
> ltdl interaction, which is a wee bit heavy handed...
> 
> With this fix, we can say that client code should not /set/ the error
> mode during calls to ltdl, which is much less limiting (at least on up
> to date OSes, i.e. those w/ GetErrorMode).
> 
> But the impact of all this is not really that big, let's drop the patch
> if you think it's too pedantic. I just wanted to do the best possible
> thing, and the patch isn't exactly intrusive...

The patch is fine with me.  I really just wanted to understand it.
Please apply.

BTW, does the new reference to kernel32.dll mean that the code will
break on 64-bit Windows?

Thanks,
Ralf