Problems with recent GDB Cygwin builds

[Pierre Muller]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gdb-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] De la part
> de Tom Tromey
> Envoyé : vendredi 15 avril 2011 17:37
> À : Pierre Muller
> Cc : 'gdb'
> Objet : Re: Problems with recent GDB Cygwin builds
> 
> >>>>> "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.
 That is basically what I did in the patch sent (see below).
 
> Looking at charset.c, I see some special code for the USE_WIN32API case.
> Does the Cygwin port define this? 
No, this macro is not set for Cygwin.

> Maybe target-charset is wrong?

I proposed a patch on gdb-patches:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00225.html

Pierre