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Re: [PATCH] Make cygwin use .gdbinit
I suggest something like:
These files are normally named @file{.gdbinit} although filesystem
limitations require that they be named @file{gdb.ini} on some
platforms, such as DJGPP.
Although DJGPP also could look for .gdbinit first, then gdb.ini. It
will work on LFN-enabled systems. But the complaint about gdb.ini
would have to be silenced for DJGPP.
Also, there's no reason not to look for first .gdbinit and then
gdb.ini on *all* platforms, and warn the user only if *both* are
found.
PS: While DJGPP is indeed dos-based, most people don't realize it uses
the DOS simulator within Windows. So a technically true statement can
still be misleading. In the long war against MS trying to kill DOS,
we run into this kind of problem all the time.