Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] ntdll/tests: Move NtAllocateVirtualMemory tests that were in kernel32

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Huw Davies  wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason the tested functions are dynamically
> > loaded in some test executables?
>
> The typical reason would be that the functions are not available on
> all of the Windows versions that we test.
>
> As we retire testing on older Windows versions this can leave us
> dynamically loading functions that we need not any more.

Another reason is that sometimes PSDK doesn't have an appropriate import
library. Alphough it tends to get added in newer PSDK versions, but that's
not a good reason to break compilation with older PSDK versions by removing
dynamic API loading (some people abuse this very badly recently).