From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30918 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2007 18:54:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 30908 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Oct 2007 18:54:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:54:53 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641AF98336; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:54:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FAF9810B; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:54:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IhV5X-00014B-AY; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:54:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:19:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Pedro Alves Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems Message-ID: <20071015185451.GA3934@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pedro Alves References: <4711021C.8010805@portugalmail.pt> <20071013205105.GA13789@adacore.com> <47114BB7.1000501@portugalmail.pt> <20071014051622.GC13789@adacore.com> <471200C5.6050609@portugalmail.pt> <20071014173921.GD11619@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <471259B2.6050808@portugalmail.pt> <20071014221603.GA13096@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20071014222252.GA13023@caradoc.them.org> <20071015184525.GI14543@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071015184525.GI14543@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00403.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:45:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. I hadn't thought about that. I suppose not. Although we (CodeSourcery) do have some scary libiberty bits to call out to a Cygwin DLL or cygpath binary, for other programs... it's probably possible to make that work in GDB but I'm not sure of the value either. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery