Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-15T18:54:58Z

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:45:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I just don't see why it should care about Cygwin. Why complicate the
> code with special case operations for cygwin when there is already a
> cygwin port? I doubt that this version of gdb would correctly translate
> cygwin paths built into the executable so it seems like it would just
> be a basically unused feature.

I hadn't thought about that. I suppose not. Although we
(CodeSourcery) do have some scary libiberty bits to call out to a
Cygwin DLL or cygpath binary, for other programs... it's probably
possible to make that work in GDB but I'm not sure of the value
either.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery