Re: [Mingw-users] remote TCP debugging MinGW

[Kai R. <kai...@lu...>]

"Kai Ruottu" <kai...@lu...> wrote:

>  BTW, the WinCE-target support in GDB includes stuff like 'gdb/wince.c' and
> 'gdb/wince-stub.c' which also use the Windows-sockets (winsock) ? for some
> purpose:

 If one looks at the 'wince.c', the part running on Win32, and 'wince-stub.c',
the part running on WinCE, one easily gets the thought that the same maybe
could be implemented for the Win32-to-Win32 remote debugging. So a WinNT/2k/XP
system which should be much more stable as the development platform, could
be used as the debug host for debugging Win32 stuff running on Win95/98/ME,
which is the equivalent of the WinCE, "a stripped model of the real Windows".

 So doing remote debugging via TCP could be considered to be a natural part
of native/remote-GDB for MinGW (and for Cygwin). Or do people really think
that debugging Win32 apps on an old 60 - 120 MHz Win95 system is fun when
a 2.4 GHz PC with WinXP could also be available?

 Ok, if someone has experience with TCP and doesn't know what one could do
in those rainy days when being on the summer vacation, this could be one
nice project to think about, to implement the 'win32.c' and 'win32-stub.c'
parts using the 'wince.c' host part and the 'wince-stub.c' target part as
models...

Cheers, Kai