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Re: [PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish
- To: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:12:48 +0200 (IST)
- cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I recently found that a bug that I'd been halfheartedly tracking
> down for months was caused by the fact that some of gdb's code didn't
> recognize the fact that f:/ was an absolute path under cygwin.
>
> This patch should fix that as well as a number of other odd
> incompatibilities with mixed case.
Sounds fine to me (and long overdue ;-), but do Cygwin library
functions support the drive letter braindamage? If not, you will get
yourself in trouble.
I wrote filenames.h, so if you need my approval, you've got it. I don't
know who's its responsible maintainer, though.