Re: [RFA 2/2][master only] gdb/windows-nat.c: Get rid of main_thread_id global

Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-25T05:39:30Z

> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:13:22 +0200
> From: AndrÃ© PÃ¶nitz <apoenitz@t-online.de>
> Cc: palves@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> To be honest, I have still difficulties to find a mental model on what
> irks a typical Windows users. On one hand, they can apparently stand
> developing on that platform, on the other hand, two lines of extra
> output, even issued for consistency reasons, appear to be a show
> stopper.

That was sarcasm, I guess?

In any case, I'm not sure why you think developing for Windows in the
relevant use cases is something that needs some super-natural
endurance capabilities: I develop using Emacs, GCC, Binutils, GDB,
Grep, Find, and all the other tools you are familiar with. It's very
similar to developing on a Posix platform. GDB doesn't support debug
info in formats emitted by Windows compilers, it only supports
GCC-emitted info, AFAIK.

And two lines of extra output you don't expect are not a show-stopper,
but they do make you stop and think for a moment whether this is
something your code did.