Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems

Christopher Faylor
2007-10-15T18:38:11Z

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:28:30AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>>> Rename a few things, which really aren't cygwin specific, like:
>>>> * cygwin_get_dr6 -> win32_get_dr6
>>>> * i386-cygwin-tdep.h -> i386-win32-tdep.h
>>>> * nm-cygwin.h -> nm-cygming.h
>>> I propose we use "windows" instead of either "win32" or "cygming".
>>> It seems more descriptive to me, and also avoids the "32", since
>>> eventually we might want to add support for 64-bit windows....
>
> We better decide if and what to rename them the next time we're
> changing them, then.
>
>> I don't really care about this but the "cygming" probably comes from
>> similar naming in gcc.
>
> Yes.

FWIW, I think either I or Danny Smith and I came up with that naming
over there.

>> I believe that RMS has objections to the name "win32" and "win64", too.
>> So, whatever we use, it shouldn't have the abbreviation "win" in it.
>
> I thought his objections were about the naming of the operation
> system. win32 seems right to me, when we're talking about the
> Win32 API. Windows includes other things, like the interix
> subsystem, or the NT native API.

I didn't think he cared. He used to send me email when I was
maintaining the --win32 make option in Cygwin but that does, I guess,
imply the OS rather than the API. I think win32 and win64 make sense
but I thought I should mention this nonetheless.

cgf