From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:46:00 -0000 Message-id: <20011016084739.B6725@redhat.com> References: <20011016010250.A5592@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00235.html On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >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. Sure. DOS files just bypass cygwin's path manipulation, for the most part. >I wrote filenames.h, so if you need my approval, you've got it. I don't >know who's its responsible maintainer, though. I assume that only you and I really care about this. :-) cgf