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