I still fail to see "why P5P could not simply adopt this . . . and be done."

Yeah ... maybe I was concentrating more on the reasons that (I believe) they would not, rather than reasons that they could not.
And the bug with windows strtold() turned out to be far less significant than I thought it would be.
Its looking like __mingw_strtold should be an alias for strtold (just as __mingw_strtod is an alias for strtod), but for some reason (probably oversight), that's not happening.
In any case, the patch that handles this bug does so as efficiently as would fixing the bug in the mingw-w64 port of gcc.

I just can't see p5p adopting this patch simply on the basis of the testing that I've done - though I'll probably raise it with them again once I've managed to properly prepare myself for the eventuality of being ignored once more. (Not a particularly pleasurable experience.)

Cheers,
Rob

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