Re: Windows support in GDB

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-29T17:57:52Z

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:16:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It seems like my point wasn't clear here. I know that cygwin is slow.
>
> I'm talking about just using gdb for debugging. If your customers are
> routinely rebuilding gdb, then the slowness would be an issue. If they
> are not, then unless cygwin was adding some kind of 10x slowdown to
> debugging, I don't see why it would be an issue.

OK, I see your point. I think we're talking past each other, though -
this comes back to Kris's point about consistency. Shipping a mingw
GCC and a cygwin GDB is error-prone, especially if we otherwise do not
need the cygwin DLL.

Actually, there are a number of places where GDB's performance does
matter. It's just not as constant and browbeaten an issue as for GCC
:-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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