From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16091 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:56:25 -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 15868 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:56:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:56:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 999 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:56:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?65.78.187.111?) (mitchell@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:56:15 -0000 Message-ID: <42726728.4030408@codesourcery.com> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:57:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Korn CC: 'Christopher Faylor' , paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00230.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >>From: Mark Mitchell >>Sent: 29 April 2005 17:15 > > >>The fundamental reason for us to use it is that our customers say -- >>strongly -- that they do not want to use Cygwin. (In contrast, I use >>Cygwin every day.) There are a lot of possible reasons for the customer >>desire, and it doesn't really seem all that useful to debate the >>reasons, as our debate won't change their minds. > > > :) The customer is always right, even if they're a complete idiot! Hardly -- and we consider it part of our job to educate our customers on what's appropriate and what's not. But we also know enough to realize that sometimes we're not going to change their minds. And sometimes they have good reasons for seeing things differently than us. GDB certainly contains more autoconf #ifdefs to support various versions of UNIX than have been added through our recent Windows patches. I'm genuinely perplexed as to where the concerns are originating. I'd understand concerns about hacking up the DWARF reader, or the symbol table interface, or even adding support for the Visual C debug format (we have no such plans!). But here we've added things like #ifdef HAVE_SIGPIPE around uses of SIGPIPE, where the code already contained very similar #ifdefs. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com (916) 791-8304