Re: RFC: support debug info in separate files

Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-10T20:01:40Z

> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> Date: 09 Dec 2002 21:56:10 -0500
>
> > `.debug' is an invalid file name on DOS 8+3 filesystems (leading dots are
> > not allowed). For the benefit of users of the DJGPP port of GDB, I
> > suggest to allow an additional name, `_debug', as a substitute. Thus,
> > conditioned on __MSDOS__, GDB would look for `_debug' subdirectory if
> > `.debug' does not exist.
>
> I'm reluctant to put #if __MSDOS__ in there directly. Would it be
> appropriate to #define something in xm-go32.h, which could be given a
> default value of ".debug" in symfile.c?

That'd be fine, thanks.