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Re: Path problem with dwarf on cygwin
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:42:58 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>
> I said a couple of weeks ago that I had a really nasty patch for this
> problem, but never got around to cleaning it up. You've built a Cygwin
> GDB, therefore when it needs to construct a path, it uses forward
> slashes. Yet your debugging info matches what you gave the compiler,
> i.e. has backwards slashes. The debugger needs to be taught smarter
> filename comparison.
Why ``nasty''? Isn't it enough to modify the FILENAME_CMP macro, and
be done with that? If not, what else need to be changed, and why?