Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-04T10:20:41Z

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:06:11 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
> Cc: drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> If we had safe_strerror try a macro which the nm-*.h file could
> define, I'd feel better about the change.

Which to me sounds strange: when Mark M. suggested his original patch
for the event loop, I asked for the Windows specific parts to be put
in win32-nat.c, instead of littering a system-independent file.
However, no one supported me in that request then, AFAIR. Would
people who argue for cleansing GDB sources of non-Posix filth please
take a good look at event-loop.c? If we agree to having that code
there, I don't see how we can possibly lecture Daniel about keeping
system-dependent stuff out. We need to be consistent about our
standards.

(For the record, in that past discussion about gdb_select I mentioned
above, Daniel argued for having the code in event-loop.c, so Daniel
_is_ consistent about _his_ standards.)