From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30480 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2010 18:00:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 30461 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Mar 2010 18:00:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:47 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id BE5B16D42F5; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:00:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Tom Tromey Subject: Re: [RFA] defs.h: Define GDB_DEFAULT_TARGET_[WIDE_]CHARSET for Cygwin and MingW builds Message-ID: <20100303180044.GU17293@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey References: <20100301103125.GB9730@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100301173054.GD5683@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100301193126.GA9416@caradoc.them.org> <20100303170645.GA23545@caradoc.them.org> <20100303172217.GR17293@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100303173307.GA25653@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100303173307.GA25653@caradoc.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-03/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On Mar 3 12:33, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:22:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > As one of the Cygwin maintainers I veto the notion to handle Cygwin > > as a Windows target in the first place. > > > > It's not valid to assume that Cygwin GDB is used to debug native apps > > and Cygwin apps are just an afterthought. And for Cygwin binaries the > > Windows default codepage has no meaning. The default codeset in Cygwin > > is UTF-8 and otherwise the same locale environment variables are used as > > other POSIX systems. > > > > Only the MingW GDB should default to the ANSI codepage. Cygwin should > > default to UTF-8. > > I don't understand why there's so much conflict about this! > [...] > I don't see why we can't do it right. I didn't say anything against doing it right. But this: > At this point, I think it's correct to call GetACP even for > a Cygwin GDB. is *not* right. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat