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

Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03T18:09:53Z

> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:58:32 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > 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...

Is that use-case even practical? Who would develop on Windows if they
have Linux or Irix?

Anyway, if others don't mind to have DOS-ism in mdebugread.c and
elfread.c, I don't object.