From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Seitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Subject: Re: [RFA] defs.h _WIN32 defined by Win98, too Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 07:48:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00002.html On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Win98 no longer works under cygwin: > > > > (gdb) file gdb.exe > > Loading symbols from gdb.exe...done > > (gdb) run > > `/home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe' has disappeared; keeping its > > symbols. > > > > Starting program: /home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe > > Error creating process /home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe (error 2) > > [often crashes here] > > > > Apparently, Win98 defines _WIN32 somewhere... > > So perhaps there's a bug in Cygwin ;-) Nope. Works fine on Win2000 using EXACTLY the same environment. > Anyway, didn't Chris say that _WIN32 should be removed from GDB > everywhere? If that's so, the ifdef _WIN32 should be simply deleted, > instead of lumping more ifdefs on top of it. For SLASH_STRING in > particular, this shouldn't be a problem at all, since Windows supports > forward slashes as well as backslashes, even if GDB is built with MS > run-time DLLs. Windows does NOT support both forward and backward slashes in this context. Or perhaps more correctly, cygwin does not support both. I don't know (and frankly don't care) who is to blame. Gdb doesn't work on Win98. As for eliminating SLASH_STRING, well, that's a much bigger and riskier change than the simple, pragmatic approach I've taken. However, if people want me to just assume that SLASH_STRING is "/", I'm more than happy to whack all the bits with SLASH_STRING in them (defs.h, cli/cli-cmds.c, defs.h, and source.c). Just let me know, and it shall be done! I appreciate the expediant reply. Keith