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Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:36:48PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 21 13:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > 2.  What is newconsole good for?  I never use it and wonder if it
>> > shouldn't just be nuked.  My usual refrain applies here:  Is there
>> > anything similar in regular gdb?
>> 
>> I believe this is similar to "set inferior-tty", though I'm not sure
>> exactly what the Windows version does.
>
>It starts the inferior in a new console window, different from the
>console window GDB is running in.  It's quite similar to what "set
>inferior-tty" is for.

So it actually is useful and used then?

cgf


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