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Re: Fix lookup of separate debug file on MS-Windows


> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:56:11 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Given the complexity of supporting all these scenarios (if we want to 
> support them, we at least want to test them, which is a lot of work) and 
> the fact that they are all theoretical at this point, I would be fine to 
> go with what you had in your patch (using HAS_DRIVE_SPEC).  If somebody 
> ever needs to remotely debug a Windows machine from a Linux machine and 
> have GDB find separate debug file in the remote debug file directory... 
> then they can add the missing pieces :).

OK, thanks.  I will wait for a day or two for any other comments, and
if nothing comes up, will push with a FIXME comment regarding the
remote debugging use cases.


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