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Re: [patch] Build arm-elf-gdb on mingw host
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:30:47 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:26:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I think you're right. This sounds like a problem in msys's texinfo
> > although just linking with binmode.o shouldn't really hurt anything even
> > if texinfo was fixed.
>
> Wouldn't it break if the source files (bfd/*, inputs to chew) had DOS
> line endings?
It most certainly would. So 100% binary I/O is a problem waiting to
bite us, as soon as someone edits bfd/* sources with a Windows editor
that doesn't preserve EOL format.