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> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:35:06 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> My objections are mostly techincal, or easthetical if you want to call
> it that.  Having two different versions of support code for what's in
> the end the same platform is silly.

But it isn't the same platform, anymore than MIPS/Linux and MIPS/Irix
are the same platform.  Cygwin requires a considerable amount of
additional software to be installed, of which a large part is a system
library that presents a very different API than the native OS.

> But I admot morality plays a role here.  I'm much more inclined to
> accept #ifdef's for a Free (as in Freedom) system than I am for a
> non-free system.

Then I think you should have similar reservations about the Cygwin
port, because (as you believe) it is for the same non-free platform.