- workaround to make 1.6 build under MSVC 5.0. hopefully,

  trent (who broke it in the first place ;-) will come up
  with a cleaner solution.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Python/thread_nt.h b/Python/thread_nt.h
index 9e82a9408f..fb04f830ee 100644
--- a/Python/thread_nt.h
+++ b/Python/thread_nt.h
@@ -182,7 +182,11 @@ static void PyThread__init_thread(void)
  */
 int PyThread_start_new_thread(void (*func)(void *), void *arg)
 {
+#if _MSC_VER >= 1200
 	INT_PTR rv;
+#else
+	unsigned long rv;
+#endif
 	int success = 0;
 
 	dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_start_new_thread called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident()));