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Re: Why gdb 6.5 prints fullname in /cygdrive/... format om Windows?
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:10:20PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:17:13AM +0100, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >A non-Cygwin application can convert the Cygwin paths to Windows paths
> > >(by dynamic loading of Cygwin if it's present).
> >
> > Interesting idea. How's it done?
> >
> > I'm not suggesting GDB do such a thing, but it sounds like a useful
> > trick for my own purposes.
>
> Of course, don't count on this working. The GDB could easily be built on
> Cygwin, and the cygwin1.dll delivered. In this case there will be no
> cygpath, and your front end won't work.
Please read my suggestion again :-) It does not rely on a cygpath
binary.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery