Re: [RFC] MinGW and i386_pe_skip_trampoline_code

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:32:35AM +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just looking at PE support code, and I noticed that in i386-cygwin-tdep.c,
> > there is a call to set_gdbarch_skip_trampoline_code that will eventually 
> > register
> > i386_pe_skip_trampoline_code, defined in i386-tdep.c.
> > From the looks of it, that function will skip 'import lib 
> > stubs'/trampolines.
> > I wonder why gdb for MinGW doesn't register it too? Probably an 
> > oversight, no?
> >     
>
> The FSF tree doesn't even support native GDB on MinGW, to the best of
> my knowledge.  The MinGW people have local patches that I don't believe
> have ever been submitted (this is hearsay, I've never looked myself).
>
>   

Ah ok. MinGW is handled on gdb/configure.tgt, so I thought it was supported.
I've never looked into MinGW's gdb sources either.

Cheers,
Pedro Alves