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Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:28:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: Support of gdb for Windows 64 native systems
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
Rename a few things, which really aren't cygwin specific, like:
* cygwin_get_dr6 -> win32_get_dr6
* i386-cygwin-tdep.h -> i386-win32-tdep.h
* nm-cygwin.h -> nm-cygming.h
I propose we use "windows" instead of either "win32" or "cygming".
It seems more descriptive to me, and also avoids the "32", since
eventually we might want to add support for 64-bit windows....
We better decide if and what to rename them the next time we're
changing them, then.
I don't really care about this but the "cygming" probably comes from
similar naming in gcc.
Yes.
I believe that RMS has objections to the name "win32" and "win64", too.
So, whatever we use, it shouldn't have the abbreviation "win" in it.
I thought his objections were about the naming of the operation
system. win32 seems right to me, when we're talking about the
Win32 API. Windows includes other things, like the interix
subsystem, or the NT native API.
Either way, it might seem I was implying it, but you won't see
rename-only patches from me :)
Cheers,
Pedro Alves