Problems with recent GDB Cygwin builds
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Fri Apr 15 15:38:00 GMT 2011
>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> writes:
Pierre> I found out that the problem is related to the
Pierre> fact that __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined in:
Pierre> $ grep -n ISO_10646 /usr/include/*/*
Pierre> /usr/include/sys/features.h:185:#define __STDC_ISO_10646__ 200305L
Pierre> because of this, GDB uses "UCS-4LE" for the macro
Pierre> INTERMEDIATE_ENCODING for Cygwin (while "wchar_t" is used for
Pierre> mingw32).
Pierre> Forcing "wchar_t" fixes the problem described below.
Pierre> The question is how to cope with this inside gdb sources.
Worst case, you can add __CYGWIN__ checking in gdb_wchar.h.
Looking at charset.c, I see some special code for the USE_WIN32API case.
Does the Cygwin port define this? Maybe target-charset is wrong?
Tom
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