From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11620 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2007 03:38:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 11610 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Oct 2007 03:38:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-174-251-188.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (71.174.251.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:38:40 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 0490D2B353; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:38:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Kai Tietz Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems Message-ID: <20071012033833.GA1910@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Kai Tietz References: <20071011142348.GA18239@caradoc.them.org> <20071011145549.GA19918@caradoc.them.org> <20071011160058.GH6029@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071011160058.GH6029@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:00:58AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: >>There's documentation in the internals manual. For a native Windows >>target, you'd have to talk to Chris about how to avoid duplicating or >>complicating the Cygwin support. > >Just for the record, AdaCore has a native win32 port of GDB, inspired >mostly from the mingw project. Our patch is kept up to date against >the FSF head too, so it should be relatively easy to submit it. >Except, as Daniel mentions, there are probably some issues relative to >co-existence with cygwin support that need to be addressed. This is >high on my list, so if I wasn't so busy for this end of year, it's a >project I would have already started. (and there is the copyright >assignment issue, but I'm hoping this is solvable) If you're using modified mingw patches then it seems to me like you've actually compounded the whole issue of copyright assignment. cgf