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  r64214 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-06-13 02:42:22 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 6 lines

  Restore support for Microsoft VC6 compiler.
  Some functions in the msvcrt module are skipped,
  and socket.ioctl is enabled only when using a more recent Platform SDK.

  (and yes, there are still companies that use a 10-years old compiler)
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diff --git a/Include/pythonrun.h b/Include/pythonrun.h
index c0cf263..e57b7f0 100644
--- a/Include/pythonrun.h
+++ b/Include/pythonrun.h
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
    to a 8k margin. */
 #define PYOS_STACK_MARGIN 2048
 
-#if defined(WIN32) && !defined(MS_WIN64) && defined(_MSC_VER)
+#if defined(WIN32) && !defined(MS_WIN64) && defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1300
 /* Enable stack checking under Microsoft C */
 #define USE_STACKCHECK
 #endif