From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24337 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2006 07:39:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 24328 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Feb 2006 07:39:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.198) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:39:19 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so877636nzd for ; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.178.13 with SMTP id a13mr520505nzf; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:39:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602042339s5f2fa822md543ee05bed367e1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:39:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: 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> <20060203233935.GA13238@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205002710.GC8728@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205020114.GA25947@nevyn.them.org> 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/msg00096.txt.bz2 On 2/4/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:01:14 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > I think that mingw32 hosting support and mingw32 native support can be > > treated separately; do you disagree? > > I do. I think they should be treated together, as having a cross > debugger that cannot debug natively is kinda silly. I don't think it's silly. If you are using Windows as a platform for cross-development, you may not even have shelled out the bucks for a native compiler. In that situation, why would it be ridiculous to have a debugger that, like your compiler, is only useful debugging programs on your cross target? Also, the kinds of things needed to host GDB on a platform are best kept partitioned away from the stuff needed for doing native target debugging, simply as a matter of design. It's a simple matter of separation of concerns.