Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:46:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GDB and source directories (was: Printer Error)
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About that problem in GDB with source directories: the functions which 
deal with source directories (I think they are on source.c) should be 
patched so GDB will use `;' as a source path separator instead of `:' 
which is appropriate for Unix.  I believe this is the cause for both the 
problems with finding the sources, and for GDB being unable to handle 
drive letters in source directories' names.

This is just one of those subtle bugs left by naive ports of Unix
programs to MSDOS.  (``Naive'' meaning: if it compiles and doesn't crash, 
it will work as advertised.)