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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows  hosts
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:33:54PM -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>Hello,
>
>With the MinGW debugger, it is currently not possible to use a path
>that follows the Windows convention.  For instance:
>
>        (gdb) file c:\foo\bar.exe
>        c:foobar.exe: No such file or directory.
>
>This is because the routine that parses arguments treats all backslashes
>as an escape character.  With a MinGW tool, this does not make sense
>when the argument is a path, since the canonical directory separator
>on Windows is a backslash...
>
>What the user has to do, at this point, is escape every backslash,
>which can be quite painful when the path starts getting longer...
>
>        (gdb) file c:\\foo\\bar.exe
>        Reading symbols from c:\foo\bar.exe...done.

Why not just use a "forward" slash?

cgf