From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5711 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2006 01:06:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 5703 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Feb 2006 01:06:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:06:16 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so728959nzd for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:06:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.222.48 with SMTP id u48mr2037828nzg; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:06:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:06:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602031706s55e09abfr4354becf8278921c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:06:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Mark Kettenis Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror Cc: drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200602032325.k13NPJ6g028001@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060203215455.GA3501@nevyn.them.org> <200602032325.k13NPJ6g028001@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 On 2/3/06, Mark Kettenis wrote: > GDB is written for POSIX systems. It's clear that Windows isn't even > remotely POSIX compliant. Technically, Stallman would say that GDB is written for GNU systems, and *all* non-GNU support is a distraction. Iffy. So I'm not sure you really want to push that argument too hard. But I agree, about the patch. If we had safe_strerror try a macro which the nm-*.h file could define, I'd feel better about the change.