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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-10-29 18:10:23 +0300
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Support command-line redirection in native MS-Windows debugging
gdb/ChangeLog 2016-10-29 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * NEWS: Mention support for redirection on MS-Windows. * windows-nat.c (redir_open, redir_set_redirection) (redirect_inferior_handles) [!__CYGWIN__]: New functions. (windows_create_inferior) [!__CYGWIN__]: Use 'redirect_inferior_handles' to redirect standard handles of the debuggee if the command line requests that.
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compiler. The --disable-build-with-cxx configure option has been
removed.
+* Native debugging on MS-Windows supports command-line redirection
+
+ Command-line arguments used for starting programs on MS-Windows can
+ now include redirection symbols supported by native Windows shells,
+ such as '<', '>', '>>', '2>&1', etc. This affects GDB commands such
+ as "run", "start", and "set args", as well as the corresponding MI
+ features.
+
* Support for thread names on MS-Windows.
GDB now catches and handles the special exception that programs