Re: gdb trouble

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:36:20AM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> Peter Buckley wrote:
> 
> > I presuppose that it doesn't understand /cygdrive and mount points, so 
> > it doesn't compute /usr/bin to mean c:\cygwin\bin.
> 
> 
> Now I'm totally confused [i.e. more than usually so].
> Why does the APPLICATION need to be "Cygwin aware?"  If it references 
> "/usr/bin" the equation to "C:\cygwin\bin" or whatever is entirely 
> behind the curtains, nicht war?
> 
> Please, Corinna, clarify what gdb is "missing."

gdb is a Cygwin application.  It can act using POSIX paths and
Cygwin mount points.  The GUI is not a Cygwin app.  It acts 
using native Windows paths.  Nobody has ported that stuff to
Cygwin so far.  AFAIK.

Corinna

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