From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24868 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2007 18:38:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 24859 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Oct 2007 18:38:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-174-251-188.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (71.174.251.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:38:08 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 9691A2B353; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:38:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:39:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Kai.Tietz@onevision.com, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems Message-ID: <20071015183806.GG14543@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Kai.Tietz@onevision.com, Eli Zaretskii References: <20071013154715.GE29152@adacore.com> <4711021C.8010805@portugalmail.pt> <20071013205105.GA13789@adacore.com> <47114BB7.1000501@portugalmail.pt> <20071014051622.GC13789@adacore.com> <471200C5.6050609@portugalmail.pt> <20071014203245.GA1921@adacore.com> <20071014222159.GB13096@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4712A61E.70408@portugalmail.pt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4712A61E.70408@portugalmail.pt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00400.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:28:30AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>> Rename a few things, which really aren't cygwin specific, like: >>>> * cygwin_get_dr6 -> win32_get_dr6 >>>> * i386-cygwin-tdep.h -> i386-win32-tdep.h >>>> * nm-cygwin.h -> nm-cygming.h >>> I propose we use "windows" instead of either "win32" or "cygming". >>> It seems more descriptive to me, and also avoids the "32", since >>> eventually we might want to add support for 64-bit windows.... > > We better decide if and what to rename them the next time we're > changing them, then. > >> I don't really care about this but the "cygming" probably comes from >> similar naming in gcc. > > Yes. FWIW, I think either I or Danny Smith and I came up with that naming over there. >> I believe that RMS has objections to the name "win32" and "win64", too. >> So, whatever we use, it shouldn't have the abbreviation "win" in it. > > I thought his objections were about the naming of the operation > system. win32 seems right to me, when we're talking about the > Win32 API. Windows includes other things, like the interix > subsystem, or the NT native API. I didn't think he cared. He used to send me email when I was maintaining the --win32 make option in Cygwin but that does, I guess, imply the OS rather than the API. I think win32 and win64 make sense but I thought I should mention this nonetheless. cgf