[PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@is.elta.co.il
Tue Oct 16 02:13:00 GMT 2001
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.
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