Re: gdb.ini vs. .gdbinit on Cygwin

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:46:08 -0500
> From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
> 
> But then I remembered that we may have native Windows GDB (i.e., not
> Cygwin,
> but Win32 GDB programs).  Can those also look for ".gdbinit"?

There's no problem whatsoever for native Windows programs, including a
Win32 GDB port, to access files with a leading dots in their names.
The fact that the Explorer disallows is simply a terrible misfeature
(if not a bug), but it has no technical reasons behind it.

So a Win32 port of GDB could easily use .gdbinit as well.