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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:50:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.
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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:49:04 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz70@googlemail.com
> 
> > If the former, I think it is a very bad idea to have the ABI fixed at
> > build time, because most users of MinGW do not build their own GDB.
> > At the time when 2 incompatible ABIs coexist, it is very important to
> > have GDB that could adapt to either.
> 
> The problem is that I do not know whether we can make it work or not.

Well, we should at least have the symptoms of the wrong ABI spelled
out in PROBLEMS.