Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

Jim Blandy
2006-02-05T07:39:22Z

On 2/4/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:01:14 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >
> > 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.