Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems

Christopher Faylor
2007-10-15T18:45:29Z

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 06:22:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 06:16:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> There should be no cygwin accommodations in a pure windows port of gdb.
>
>Why? A native Windows GDB that can usefully debug Cygwin programs
>seems convenient to me.

I just don't see why it should care about Cygwin. Why complicate the
code with special case operations for cygwin when there is already a
cygwin port? I doubt that this version of gdb would correctly translate
cygwin paths built into the executable so it seems like it would just
be a basically unused feature.

cgf