Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>>> 	Rename a few things, which really aren't cygwin specific, like:
>>> 		* cygwin_get_dr6 -> win32_get_dr6
>>> 		* i386-cygwin-tdep.h -> i386-win32-tdep.h
>>> 		* nm-cygwin.h -> nm-cygming.h
>> I propose we use "windows" instead of either "win32" or "cygming".
>> It seems more descriptive to me, and also avoids the "32", since
>> eventually we might want to add support for 64-bit windows....
> 

We better decide if and what to rename them the next time we're
changing them, then.

> I don't really care about this but the "cygming" probably comes from
> similar naming in gcc.
> 

Yes.

> I believe that RMS has objections to the name "win32" and "win64", too.
> So, whatever we use, it shouldn't have the abbreviation "win" in it.
> 

I thought his objections were about the naming of the operation
system.  win32 seems right to me, when we're talking about the
Win32 API.  Windows includes other things, like the interix
subsystem, or the NT native API.

Either way, it might seem I was implying it, but you won't see
rename-only patches from me :)

Cheers,
Pedro Alves