From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] defs.h _WIN32 defined by Win98, too
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:49:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010801114944.14932J-100000@is>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0107311445130.28966-100000@makita.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00000.html

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Keith Seitz wrote:

> As a result of this change:
> 
> 2001-06-13  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> 
>         * config/i386/xm-go32.h (SLASH_P, ROOTED_P, SLASH_CHAR)
>         (SLASH_STRING): Remove unised definitions.
>         * config/i386/xm-cygwin.h: Likewise.
> 
> 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 ;-)

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.