Re: [h-e-w] Question: Gdb, Emacs and Cygwin mount

[Harald . Maier . BW]

"Wang, Xiangmin" <address@hidden> writes:

>       I think this is a problem of emacs and cygwin mount mismatch. I wish
> someone can share some thought on it. Thanks.
...
> 
>               When the execution stopped at the breakpoint 'main', gdb
> brought up a empty source buffer 'hello.c'. When I M-x pwd from this empty
> source buffer, IT IS c:/home/foo. Please note that there is a drive
> designator, c:, prefixing the posix path /home/foo.

There was on Februar 2002 a discussion on gnu.emacs.help that
discusses the problem in deep. But IIRC there isn't currently a
solution implemented. Some people are thinking to fix this in emacs
and some people are thinking this is a problem of the cygwin port,
especially gdb.

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Harald