Re: Working on the x86_64-windows native port...

Joel Brobecker
2008-11-15T17:45:44Z

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:59:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'd like to see the patches before they are applied but I have no
> objections to this in principle.

Of course! I wouldn't touch a windows-related file without review.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Please call files amd64-xxx.c instead of x86_64-xxx.c.

oh yes, right. Will do. Thanks.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:13:49AM +0100, Kai Tietz wrote:
> This is really good. I begun with a port of gdb (now about a half a year
> ago). If you like I can provide you my work on it.

Sure! I'm traveling again next week, and I have had a very busy schedule
so any help is very welcome. Thanks!

> The mingw64 should be an alias to x86_64-pc-mingw32, nothing more, nothing
> less. There were several discussion on that on gcc, and the conclusion was
> that the target triplet should be in future on gcc (i?86|x86_64)-pc-mingw.

Makes sense. I think I'll adjust GDB to accept mingw*.

Thanks to everyone who responded,
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Joel