From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1846 invoked by alias); 2 May 2005 15:45:56 -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 1828 invoked from network); 2 May 2005 15:45:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 May 2005 15:45:51 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DSd7F-0006rd-07; Mon, 02 May 2005 11:45:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 15:45:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org, mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB Message-ID: <20050502154548.GA26295@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org, mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com References: <200504291513.j3TFDhjx021040@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050429153146.GA27362@nevyn.them.org> <427649B3.5030807@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427649B3.5030807@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:39:31AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > >>non-POSIX nature of Windows, which sets its quit far apart from the > >>traditional Unix-like systems that have been converging towards POSIX > >>for quite some time now. This means that we really need to have some > >>commitment from the Windows user community for maintaining this stuff. > >>Otherwise this will become another MetroWerks disaster. > > > > > >I don't know what you're referring to. Are you thinking of the HP > >merge? > > Mark is correct (and kudos for remembering it, its one of those things > I'd rather forget). Look for files named *mpw*, and macros named MPW, > in old sources (oh and also the bitter complaints that ensued as I went > through the slow careful process of removing it). OK, now I'm really curious! Could you explain the connection to MetroWerks? I've used MPW; it stood for Macintosh Programmer's Workshop at the time, and according to Apple's web pages it still does. MPW does make a lot more sense in this context, though. Thanks for the pointer. It was certainly a ... unique environment. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC