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Re: RFC: support debug info in separate files
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: jimb at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:00:13 +0300
- Subject: Re: RFC: support debug info in separate files
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021126082512.23833G@is> <vt27keid1kl.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> Date: 09 Dec 2002 21:56:10 -0500
>
> > `.debug' is an invalid file name on DOS 8+3 filesystems (leading dots are
> > not allowed). For the benefit of users of the DJGPP port of GDB, I
> > suggest to allow an additional name, `_debug', as a substitute. Thus,
> > conditioned on __MSDOS__, GDB would look for `_debug' subdirectory if
> > `.debug' does not exist.
>
> I'm reluctant to put #if __MSDOS__ in there directly. Would it be
> appropriate to #define something in xm-go32.h, which could be given a
> default value of ".debug" in symfile.c?
That'd be fine, thanks.