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Re: [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, ktietz70 at googlemail dot com
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:48:31 +0300
Subject: Re: [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.
References: <1278530482-10575-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <83r5je7b0c.fsf@gnu.org> <20100708154904.GN2595@adacore.com>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>

> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:49:04 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz70@googlemail.com
> 
> > If the former, I think it is a very bad idea to have the ABI fixed at
> > build time, because most users of MinGW do not build their own GDB.
> > At the time when 2 incompatible ABIs coexist, it is very important to
> > have GDB that could adapt to either.
> 
> The problem is that I do not know whether we can make it work or not.

Well, we should at least have the symptoms of the wrong ABI spelled
out in PROBLEMS.

References:
- [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: [RFA/gdb-7.2] Enable leading-mingw64-underscores by default.
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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