Dave Korn wrote: > I'm having a conceptual difficulty here: Under what circumstances would you > expect there *not* to be a debugger attached to the > inferior to which the debugger is attached? That's a bit zen, isn't it?
The code in question here runs many times in the normal course of any Cygwin program -- debugger or no. The idea behind guarding the call to OutputDebugString() with "if (being_debugged())" was that the call to IsDebuggerPresent() was cheaper than the call to OutputDebugString(), and that a well-behaived, non-debug build of a binary should not needlessly send tons and tons of nonsense to OutputDebugString unless it's actually being debugged and there is something there to interpret the nonsense. Brian
