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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:03:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:59:24 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com,
> 	jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, ralf.corsepius@rtems.org,
> 	vapier@gentoo.org, joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
> 
> > > The
> > > code in main.c already does
> > > 
> > >   #ifdef __MINGW32__
> > >     /* On Windows, argv[0] is not necessarily set to absolute form when
> > >        GDB is found along PATH, without which relocation doesn't work.  */
> > >     gdb_program_name = windows_get_absolute_argv0 (argv[0]);
> > >   #else
> > >     gdb_program_name = xstrdup (argv[0]);
> > >   #endif
> > > 
> > > Is moving that to posix-hdep.c just to avoid an ifdef?
> > 
> > The main purpose is to move the code away out of windows-nat, which
> > is only linked in native debuggers, not cross ones - so that building
> > a cross debugger hosted on Windows will work again. Basically, your
> > new function is really only dependent on the host, whereas the -nat
> > file makes the assumption that host & target are Windows.
> 
> I have added this item to the TODO list for the 7.6 release, so as not
> to forget.

Thanks.

> I was wondering if this discussion was stalled, or if it was just
> a matter of not finding the time to do the implementation.

The latter.

> I could possibly take care of it tomorrow if you'd like.

If you have time, it's fine with me.  Failing that, I will submit the
changes in a few days.