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Re: [RFA] defs.h _WIN32 defined by Win98, too
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: [RFA] defs.h _WIN32 defined by Win98, too
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Win98 no longer works under cygwin:
> >
> > (gdb) file gdb.exe
> > Loading symbols from gdb.exe...done
> > (gdb) run
> > `/home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe' has disappeared; keeping its
> > symbols.
> >
> > Starting program: /home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe
> > Error creating process /home/keiths/sources/insight/gdb\gdb.exe (error 2)
> > [often crashes here]
> >
> > Apparently, Win98 defines _WIN32 somewhere...
>
> So perhaps there's a bug in Cygwin ;-)
Nope. Works fine on Win2000 using EXACTLY the same environment.
> Anyway, didn't Chris say that _WIN32 should be removed from GDB
> everywhere? If that's so, the ifdef _WIN32 should be simply deleted,
> instead of lumping more ifdefs on top of it. For SLASH_STRING in
> particular, this shouldn't be a problem at all, since Windows supports
> forward slashes as well as backslashes, even if GDB is built with MS
> run-time DLLs.
Windows does NOT support both forward and backward slashes in this
context. Or perhaps more correctly, cygwin does not support both. I don't
know (and frankly don't care) who is to blame. Gdb doesn't work on Win98.
As for eliminating SLASH_STRING, well, that's a much bigger and riskier
change than the simple, pragmatic approach I've taken. However, if people
want me to just assume that SLASH_STRING is "/", I'm more than happy to
whack all the bits with SLASH_STRING in them (defs.h, cli/cli-cmds.c,
defs.h, and source.c).
Just let me know, and it shall be done! I appreciate the expediant reply.
Keith