Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add "Windows" OS ABI

Simon Marchi
2020-04-01T21:56:33Z

On 2020-04-01 5:42 p.m., Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 3/16/20 5:08 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> This patchset started out as a single patch to have the OS ABI Cygwin
>> applied to Windows x86-64 binaries, here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/gdb-patches/2020-03/msg00195.html
>>
>> with the follow-up here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-March/000022.html
>>
>> Eli pointed out that it doesn't make sense for binaries compilied with
>> MinGW to have the Cygwin OS ABI, that there should be separate OS ABIs
>> for Cygwin and non-Cygwin Windows binaries. This already came up in the
>> following bug report:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21500#add_comment
>
> Hurray. Thanks for doing this. Recently, another spot that could use
> this was added in windows-tdep.c. See:
>
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/gdb-patches/2020-01/msg00048.html
>
> Look for "bummer".

Ok, I'll see what I can do.

Simon