From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28520 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2011 05:12:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 28510 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Mar 2011 05:12:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:12:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BC22BAEB7; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:12:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id AKa3dlrsNaU1; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:12:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35802BAE31; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:12:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AAE31459AD; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:12:03 +0400 (RET) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:12:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ktietz70@googlemail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch gdb]: Fix some DOS-path related issues in gdb Message-ID: <20110304051203.GA30306@adacore.com> References: <20110303145832.GY30306@adacore.com> <83tyfkw00f.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83tyfkw00f.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 > Is that use-case even practical? Who would develop on Windows if they > have Linux or Irix? I really can't say that this is going to happen frequently... But I've seen situations where developers cross compile from their Windows desktop and then execute on a server running a Unix-like system. It might make less sense for GNU/Linux (I think that people are less scared of it, these days), but could make more sense for IRIX - I don't know how easy it is to procure a machine running IRIX these days... -- Joel