Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts

Tom Tromey
2010-06-04T21:53:21Z

>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> writes:

Joel> I didn't get much feedback on this. I thought it would have stirred
Joel> a little more controversy ;-). Since the feedback that we did get
Joel> went both ways, we'll just keep that an AdaCore-specific feature.

Sergio> I know it may be too late for that and I don't want to bring old
Sergio> discussions back to live, but FWIW I agree with you and André,
Sergio> in the way that GDB should correctly handle the backslash on
Sergio> MinGW environments.

Thanks for speaking up.
This seems reasonable to me too.

I am not as certain about the particular implementation, though it is
hard to see how else it could work.

Tom