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Re: Windows support in GDB


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:16:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It seems like my point wasn't clear here.  I know that cygwin is slow.
> 
> I'm talking about just using gdb for debugging.  If your customers are
> routinely rebuilding gdb, then the slowness would be an issue.  If they
> are not, then unless cygwin was adding some kind of 10x slowdown to
> debugging, I don't see why it would be an issue.

OK, I see your point.  I think we're talking past each other, though -
this comes back to Kris's point about consistency.  Shipping a mingw
GCC and a cygwin GDB is error-prone, especially if we otherwise do not
need the cygwin DLL.

Actually, there are a number of places where GDB's performance does
matter.  It's just not as constant and browbeaten an issue as for GCC
:-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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