From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Christopher Faylor Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:13:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20011016010250.A5592@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00234.html On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I recently found that a bug that I'd been halfheartedly tracking > down for months was caused by the fact that some of gdb's code didn't > recognize the fact that f:/ was an absolute path under cygwin. > > This patch should fix that as well as a number of other odd > incompatibilities with mixed case. Sounds fine to me (and long overdue ;-), but do Cygwin library functions support the drive letter braindamage? If not, you will get yourself in trouble. I wrote filenames.h, so if you need my approval, you've got it. I don't know who's its responsible maintainer, though.