From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7541 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2003 18:56:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7534 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2003 18:56:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.187.230.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2003 18:56:25 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id D3AF532A822; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:56:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:56:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under cygwin 1.5.3-1 Message-ID: <20030910185624.GA2704@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3F5F2C94.31945.291668BC@localhost> <3F5F5C7D.5659.2D0964@localhost> <3F5F55F1.9020905@macdonnell.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F5F55F1.9020905@macdonnell.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:48:49AM -0600, Creighton MacDonnell wrote: >If I were a Cygwin maintainer, and knew that GDB did not allow names >such as "/dev/ttyS0" under the old Cygwin, I might react that GDB should >be made "Cygwin-compatible" first. And after that, if there are still >problems with the "com?" names, they may want debug information that >could only be obtained by putting debug code into GDB. It's lucky that you're not a cygwin maintainer. "Cygwin compatibility" is supposed to be "UNIX compatibility". That's why cygwin exists. I don't have two systems set up for testing serial ports right now. However, if I was a person having this problem, I wouldn't be speculating on what other people should be doing. I'd be debugging the problem myself. In the time it takes to send email, you could be doing someting like cd gdb ls *serial* and investigating the code there, setting breakpoints, etc. cgf