Why is the Win32 boilerplate the way it is?

[Jeremy Sorensen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 29 June 2014 at 18:16:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-06-29 17:06, Jeremy Sorensen wrote:
>
>> The only question I
>> have is what happens when you use SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS:4.0 (Which 
>> I
>> understand means XP or higher) and the program runs on 
>> something older?
>> Will you get an error message or just silent failure?
>
> Actually, I don't know. You could try some different value. If 
> you search on Google I'm sure you'll find something.

Good suggestion, it took me a bit to figure out how to convince 
Visual-D to do it, but I got it.  I am using windows 8.1, so I 
had to use an as-yet fictitious number but when I did Windows 
told me it couldn't run the program, which is just perfect 
behavior.