Re: PR/2386 [1/2]: MinGW attach to process without an exec file

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:35:18 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, bodzio131@op.pl
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:20:57 +0000
> >> From: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
> >> CC: Bogdan Slusarczyk <bodzio131@op.pl>
> >>
> >> 	(*-*-mingw* | *-*-cygwin*): Set gdb_osabi to GDB_OSABI_CYGWIN.
> > 
> > Is this really right?  Unless I'm missing something, GDB_OSABI_CYGWIN
> > is not the native Windows ABI, is it?
> > 
> 
> There is no Cygwin ABI, to the best of my knowledge, since Cygwin is a
> library that sits on top of Windows, it follows the Windows ABI.  When
> MinGW support was introduced, I didn't rename that.  I haven't found a
> reason to split Cygwin|MinGW at this level.  I was avoiding rename-only
> patches, in a rename-as-I-touch mode.

Thanks for explanations.