Re: [PATCH] Make cygwin use .gdbinit

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:23:17 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> 
> @@ -13067,8 +13067,9 @@ the last command, as it would from the t
>  @cindex @file{.gdbinit}
>  @cindex @file{gdb.ini}
>  When you start @value{GDBN}, it automatically executes commands from its
> -@dfn{init files}.  These are files named @file{.gdbinit} on Unix and
> -@file{gdb.ini} on DOS/Windows.  During startup, @value{GDBN} does the
> +@dfn{init files}.  These files are normally named @file{.gdbinit} although
> +filename limitations require that they be named @file{gdb.ini} on MS-DOS.

Sigh.  Unfortunately, this wording is inaccurate and might be
misleading: it gives an impression that gdb.ini is only used on
MS-DOS.  This is not true, since the DJGPP port works on Windows as
well, but still uses gdb.ini there.