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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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In-reply-to: <3BF14E50.7E55FC0C@redhat.com> (message from Fernando Nasser on
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Subject: Re: gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on Cygwin
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:46:08 -0500
> From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
> 
> But then I remembered that we may have native Windows GDB (i.e., not
> Cygwin,
> but Win32 GDB programs).  Can those also look for ".gdbinit"?

There's no problem whatsoever for native Windows programs, including a
Win32 GDB port, to access files with a leading dots in their names.
The fact that the Explorer disallows is simply a terrible misfeature
(if not a bug), but it has no technical reasons behind it.

So a Win32 port of GDB could easily use .gdbinit as well.