Re: PR/2386 [2/2]: MinGW attach to process without an exec file

[Lerele <lerele@champenstudios.com>]

Eli Zaretskii escribió:
>> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:42:28 -0800
>> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>>     
>>> Then we should document it somewhere, that we don't support
>>> Windows 9x anymore.  Maybe in the NEWS file ?
>>>       
>> I personally don't mind declaring the end of support for 9x and NT.
>>     
>
> I do.  Many 3rd-world countries still have lots of users of older
> systems, and I don't think we should drop their support as yet.
>
> Granted, if Cygwin maintainers don't care about older Windows, then the
> Cygwin port of GDB doesn't have to, either.  But the native MinGW port
> does not have to automatically follow that suit, IMO.
>
>   


My vote for this one, if it matters.  Didn't dare to say it before.  Heh.

Plenty of users do still use older Windowses.
If a developer wants to target a Win9x box he/she needs proper debugging 
on these, or if a developer is completely hosted on Win9x.

Please do keep in mind these cases, at least for MinGW as Eli says.






> As I wrote elsewhere, the Windows 9x support in the original patch was
> not too hairy, IMO; most of the hair was due to NT support in some
> situations which I don't understand yet (see my questions to Pedro).
> So perhaps even limiting 9x support is not necessary.
>
>   
>> But,
>> we don't necessarily have to be that extreme - We could still support
>> Windows 9x but with limitations. Being able to attach the debugger
>> to a PID without specifying the executable is not a critical feature,
>> and if the rest is known to work, it's still a very fine debugger.
>>     
>
> I can live with this limitation, provided that:
>
>  . We state it in the manual, and
>
>  . GDB issues a clear error message when asked to attach to a process
>    by PID alone, and is unable to figure out the executable file name.
>
>   
>> BTW: Pedro, thanks very much for your work on the Windows port.
>>     
>
> Seconded.
>
>   

"Thirded".
Quite impressive.