Re: Windows support in GDB

Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-01T19:55:57Z

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:58:31 -0400
> From: Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com>
> CC: mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org
>
> It isn't just an issue of gdb not working with native paths because,
> as you say, it _usually_ does. It's a question of consistency.

Indeed.

In fact, any serious use of GDB will almost instantly bump into such a
consistency (or lack thereof) issue. For example, will the `edit' and
`shell' commands work if I don't have a Cygwin Bash installed and GDB
is configured to invoke that Bash as the shell?