From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: recognize 64 bits Windows executables as Cygwin osabi
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:45:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97ad4d74-4c9b-8630-f573-ca6d476dfe21@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pndk9r5v.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2020-03-10 11:16 a.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 14:05:10 +0000
>>
>>>> So what we can do is add an "MS-Windows" osabi and make "Cygwin" and
>>>> "MS-Windows" functionally equivalent. Any "pei-i386" or "pei-x86-64"
>>>> executable would be detected as "MS-Windows".
>>
>> I believe this suggestion for x86_64 is wrong, in the other direction:
>> x86_64 Cygwin is LP64, but Windows is LLP64 (Se also table in [1])
>
> If the LP64 thing is part of what defines the OS ABI, then yes, Cygwin
> should have a separate value.
If I understand correctly, that's one practical reason for introducing the separate
"Windows" OS ABI?
Simon
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[not found] <20200307041742.31158-1-simon.marchi@efficios.com>
[not found] ` <83zhcsa8my.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-03-07 16:51 ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-07 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-07 18:16 ` Simon Marchi
2020-03-08 14:05 ` Jon Turney
2020-03-10 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 15:45 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-03-14 15:35 ` Jon Turney
2020-03-09 15:39 ` Jon Turney
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