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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?


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