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

Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03T13:13:46Z

> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:50:40 +0100
> From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>
> hmm, I admit that it is pretty unlikely that *nix-nat parts are used
> with DOS-style paths. Nevertheless on cross-compiling from windows to
> *nix such paths can happen easily.

How can this happen, even for cross compilation? Can you describe a
use-case?

> Additionally it is IMHO also an issue of consistance in source.

There's no need for consistency here. Someone who reads a
BSD-specific or Linux-specific source file should already know that
backslashes are not directory separators there.