Re: [Mingw-users] Help - where is the C language sleep() function?

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> You can do that, but you're using an undocumented, obsolete, and
> deprecated interface that could disappear in future revisions of
> MSVCRT.  This is not a good idea in terms of general programming
> practice.

And as to sleep() vs _sleep(), it's not got anything to do with the gcc
version, it's the version of mingw-runtime (specifically libmoldname)
that matters.  The un-underscored aliases were removed to hopefully stop
people from using these functions:

2005-08-08  Danny Smith  <dan...@us...>

        * moldname.def.in (sleep, beep, seterrormode): Remove.

Brian