From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26112 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2010 11:54:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 26099 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2010 11:54:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:54:48 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3MBsllL009867 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:54:47 -0400 Received: from qcore.mollernet.net (vpn-10-25.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.10.25]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3MBskAW027678 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:54:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD03906.5090109@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:54:00 -0000 From: Chris Moller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts References: <20100421203354.GD6588@adacore.com> <20100421220828.GA19620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100422001714.GD19194@adacore.com> <20100422023421.GA20111@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100422103718.GG19194@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20100422103718.GG19194@adacore.com> 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: 2010-04/txt/msg00743.txt.bz2 On 04/22/10 06:37, Joel Brobecker wrote: > >> I know I'll be outvoted here but I I hate cluttering code with MS-DOS >> workarounds. >> > > Understood, and it's not obvious to me that you'll be outvoted. This > is why I am asking for comments more than a review at this point. > I would like to challenge the "workaround" term, though :-P. I much as > I dislike Windows (and believe me, I really dislike this platform), > I think that if we are going to support Windows, That, then, is the fundamental question. Certainly, Windows support adds to code complexity, which is always a bad thing. > we should support it > as a first class citizen. > >