Re: [patch gdb]: Fix some DOS-path related issues in gdb

Pedro Alves
2011-03-03T15:32:18Z

On Thursday 03 March 2011 14:58:32, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I didn't know that the Windows 64bit target can use ELF debug info.
> > Can it? With what toolchains?
> >
> > As for mdebugread.c, I always thought it was MIPS specific. What
> > other platforms use it?
>
> These would still be pertinent in the case of cross debugging, no?
> If the files were cross-compiled on Windows, the debug info would
> contain file paths that follow the Windows convention...

And then if you try to debug that on GNU/Linux, things still
won't work, because filename_cmp changes behavior depending on host,
not target or context. That's why I believe there should be a clear
distinction between what's a source path, and a host path. I think
Kai's bfd changes affect host paths, so they're fine. (haven't really
checked, but that's what I imagine). For source paths, I'd rather
have this patch resurected...

<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-12/msg00343.html>

I haven't looked at Kai's patch to see if it affects host
paths or source paths.

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Pedro Alves