Re: [RFC] Environment variables passed to inferior for Cygwin build ( follow up on mingw fix for PR 10989)

Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-04T11:16:20Z

On Oct 4 06:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> To comment on the part of what you say that I do understand: using
> SetEnvironmentVariable in this case is not TRT, because that changes
> the environment of GDB itself. By contrast, "set environment" and
> "unset environment" commands are supposed to affect only the
> environment of the inferior, without any effect on GDB itself. That
> is why I didn't use SetEnvironmentVariable in my patch.

Duh, you're right. Maybe my proposal to create the UNICODE environment
in a static function and use that in both code paths as in
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-10/msg00071.html
is acceptable?

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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