From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17999 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2006 15:57:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 17988 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Feb 2006 15:56:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.turbocat.net (HELO mail.turbocat.net) (213.133.116.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:56:57 +0000 Received: by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 17552422EC4A; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:56:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.1.1.10] (83-65-214-98.work.xdsl-line.inode.at [83.65.214.98]) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6CB422EC48 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:56:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E4CEA7.9060703@inode.at> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:57:00 -0000 From: David Ayers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror References: <20060203215455.GA3501@nevyn.them.org> <20060204145332.GB17011@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii schrieb: >>Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:53:32 -0500 >>From: Daniel Jacobowitz >> >>Well, it can't be in win32-nat.c - it's for Windows hosting rather >>than Windows native. But I could move the code to a new >>Windows-specific file, like ser-windows.o introduced in my other >>patch, and call it there. I've no objection to that. > > > ser-windows.c would be good, I think. > Well I think that treating cygwin and mingw as separate platforms is something that is creeping into many GNU projects. (Well I suppose that development is not really confined to GNU projects). But I think if both cygwin and mingw will be supported that it is important recognize them as different platforms. Therefor it seems any project would be well advised to avoid the term 'windows' and use 'cygwin' and 'mingw' respectively. IOW, I'd suggest ser-mingw.c instead. Cheers, David