From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23774 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2009 19:18:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 23759 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jul 2009 19:18:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:04 +0000 Received: (qmail 22079 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2009 19:18:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.local) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 1 Jul 2009 19:18:02 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: [RFC-v2] Add windows Thread Information Block Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller References: <000901c9f5ef$4ee06f10$eca14d30$@u-strasbg.fr> <200907011921.15134.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090701191004.GB8369@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090701191004.GB8369@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907012019.16904.pedro@codesourcery.com> 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: 2009-07/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 01 July 2009 20:10:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It's unreasonable to assume that a cross gdb configuration which > understands Windows would be able to use the w32api header files? > It could be e.g, a ppc64-linux x x86-mingw GDB. A ppc64-linux-gcc wouldn't be able to compile the headers, and if it did by miracle, the ABI (structure layout, endianess, etc.) would be wrong all over. -- Pedro Alves