Re: [PATCH 0/4] Support the Windows/MSVC target in GDB

[Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>]

On 2026-07-14 01:45, Pedro Alves wrote:

> This series depends on the BFD patch:
> 
>   bfd: recognize *-*-windows* Windows targets
> 
> which was sent separately to the binutils list, here:
> 
>   https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20260713231552.1303239-1-pedro@palves.net/T/
> 
> I have a follow-up series that starts teaching the testsuite about
> windows-msvc, too.  I've done just enough to be able to validate the
> idea, and see a few testcases pass.
> 
> Pedro Alves (4):
>   gdb: recognize *-*-windows* Windows targets
>   gdb: treat Windows host + Windows target as native
>   gdb: distinguish GNU and MSVC flavors of the Windows OS ABI
>   gdb: MSVC "long double" is a 64-bit double

FYI, I've now merged this, including the BFD patch, which had been approved earlier.

(I moved the NEWS entry to the new "since GDB 18" section.)

Pedro Alves

> 
>  gdb/NEWS                   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/aarch64-windows-tdep.c |  5 ++++-
>  gdb/amd64-windows-tdep.c   |  6 +++++-
>  gdb/arch-utils.c           | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/configure              | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  gdb/configure.ac           | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  gdb/configure.tgt          | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo        | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  gdb/i386-windows-tdep.c    |  6 +++++-
>  gdb/osabi.c                | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  gdb/osabi.h                |  8 ++++++++
>  gdb/windows-tdep.c         |  9 +++++++++
>  gdb/windows-tdep.h         |  5 +++--
>  gdbsupport/osabi.def       |  2 ++
>  14 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 490469846dcef89fe53668bdbba73591c64bed61