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

Pedro Alves
2020-04-01T21:43:23Z

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".

Thanks,
Pedro Alves