From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Cc: tromey@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Fix possible Cygwin build problem
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 15:31:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfp383t5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5624e79-c96a-120d-a568-66868d1671ea@dronecode.org.uk> (message from Jon Turney on Sat, 21 May 2022 12:18:45 +0100)
> Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 12:18:45 +0100
> From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
>
> Otoh, I'm not sure if the !__USEWIDE case has much value anymore, unless
> someone is still building gdb for Windows 9x...
__USEWIDE in native Windows programming assumes the use of wchar_t for
character and character strings, something that GDB sources aren't
equipped for doing, at least not easily. AFAIK, Cygwin alleviates
that by using UTF-8 encoded strings, but native Windows programming
cannot (yet) do that safely enough on all supported Windows versions.
As long as MinGW builds of GDB support only the so-called "ANSI"
encoding (i.e. the current system codepage), there's no reason to use
__USEWIDE in the MinGW build of GDB, and every reason not to use it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-21 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-13 19:17 [PATCH 0/9] Windows thread names Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 1/9] Fix possible Cygwin build problem Tom Tromey
2022-05-21 11:18 ` Jon Turney
2022-05-21 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-26 17:00 ` Tom Tromey
2022-05-26 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 14:12 ` Jon Turney
2022-06-02 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] Don't call QUIT in read_string Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 3/9] Rename read_string Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 4/9] Remove the byte order parameter to target_read_string Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 5/9] Move target_read_string to target/target.c Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 6/9] Share handle_ms_vc_exception with gdbserver Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 7/9] Implement thread_name for gdbserver Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 8/9] Set the worker thread name on Windows Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:17 ` [PATCH 9/9] Use GetThreadDescription " Tom Tromey
2022-04-13 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-14 5:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-14 13:17 ` Tom Tromey
2022-04-14 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-14 18:20 ` Tom Tromey
2022-04-14 18:18 ` Tom Tromey
2022-04-14 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] Windows thread names Pedro Alves
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