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Re: _MSC_VER == windbg?
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: _MSC_VER == windbg?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 20:15:46 -0400
- Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010509134446.19857W-100000@is>
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
>> Can anyone confirm or deny the fact that all of the _MSC_VER conditionals
>> in gdb are for windbg?
The cases (well ok, case defs.h) I looked at definitly suggested this. I
think we should just assume this is the case and zap all of these (if
you've not done it already.
> I cannot confirm or deny this (I don't even know what windbg is ;-), but
> was there ever any other port of GDB which used MSVC? Both Cygwin and
> MinGW obviously don't use it.
Folk law has it that WinGDB was a Cygnus special version of GDB that was
built using MSC and ran in a pure windows environment. I'm told (third
hand) that building it was a pleasure and people queued for the
privledge (not). Hmm, thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that none of
the current batch of Red Hat / Cygnus GDB developers have ever seen
WinGDB and would definitly not know how to build it (and even if they
did, they would still deny it :-).
Anyway, I like how, two years (almost to the day) that Stan committed:
1999-04-13 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
* configure.tgt (arm-*-*): Whack another vestige of wingdb.
we're still wacking out vestiges of wingdb :-)
Andrew