From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz, gdb@sources.redhat.com, mingw-users@lists.sourceforge
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: _WIN32?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:08:00 -0000
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> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 18:24:32 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
> Yes, for the most part I would like to strongly encouraging people doing 
> WIN32, GO32 and CYGWIN ports to look back over all those #ifdef's and 
> see if they are better served by an autoconf feature test.

I did that, and identified two classes of reasons for uses of such
#ifdef's:

  - to take care of issues relevant to DOSish file names, which can be
    replaced by macros defined in include/filenames.h;

and

  - to handle other issues which are unrelated to file names.

For the first category, I will publish patches I suggest which remove
all the private GDB macros defined in defs.h, and switch to using the
macros from filenames.h instead.

As for the second category, I will post here the relevant code
fragments and ask for suggestions how to proceed with each one of
them.