Re: [RFA] win32-nat.c: Simplify generation of Windows environment

Jim Blandy
2006-12-08T00:09:33Z

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:58:39 +0100
>> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
>>
>> the below patch simplifies the code which translates the Cygwin
>> environment into the native Windows environment. So far this is
>> done in GDB manually. However, there's a Cygwin specific function
>> call which does the same for the calling process. Using this call
>> has three advantages.
>
> Is win32-nat.c used only for the Cygwin build? I thought the native
> Windows build used it as well (perhaps with a few patches that are not
> yet part of the CVS), but maybe I was mistaken.
>
> If I am right, then please make this change, and especially the call
> to cygwin_internal, conditioned on __CYGWIN__, or some other
> Cygwin-specific symbol.

$ cd gdb/config
$ grep -nH -e win32-nat */*.m?
i386/cygwin.mh:2:NATDEPFILES= i386-nat.o win32-nat.o corelow.o
$

I think that means it's just Cygwin.