Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems

Joel Brobecker
2007-10-18T04:16:36Z

> I agree that we should do it by redirecting handles directly, not
> through the shell.

I love the fact that we know where we're going :)

> > But, is this considered a basic feature? I seldom use it myself.
> > I don't think it is a show stopper.
>
> I don't think it's a show-stopper, just a (temporary) lack of feature.
> For example, the DJGPP port was part of GDB for years before
> redirection support was added.

If noone gets to it, I will probably implement it under the guidance
of someone who knows Windows well. Argument passing as well as IO
redirections are features that we use regularly (and that we test
too!). As soon as I'm done with my current project (vxWorks!).

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Joel