From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 340 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2007 23:29:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 331 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2007 23:29:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:29:28 +0000 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so925515uge for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.19.11 with SMTP id w11mr7181011ugi.1192404565746; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?88.210.73.207? ( [88.210.73.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm3172942nfu.2007.10.14.16.28.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4712A61E.70408@portugalmail.pt> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:58:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Kai.Tietz@onevision.com, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems References: <20071012222842.GD21800@adacore.com> <20071013024116.GB29152@adacore.com> <20071013154715.GE29152@adacore.com> <4711021C.8010805@portugalmail.pt> <20071013205105.GA13789@adacore.com> <47114BB7.1000501@portugalmail.pt> <20071014051622.GC13789@adacore.com> <471200C5.6050609@portugalmail.pt> <20071014203245.GA1921@adacore.com> <20071014222159.GB13096@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20071014222159.GB13096@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2007-10/txt/msg00379.txt.bz2 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