From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10552 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2007 04:16:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 10538 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Oct 2007 04:16:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:16:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82C02ABDDC; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CKV-jbHnaGHI; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998542ABDD6; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50075E7A13; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:07:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Pedro Alves , uweigand@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems Message-ID: <20071018041629.GD2068@adacore.com> References: <200710161823.l9GIN1Vu023163@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <47165541.90206@portugalmail.pt> <20071017194708.GC2068@adacore.com> <471685D3.7060402@portugalmail.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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/msg00444.txt.bz2 > 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!). -- Joel