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Re: cygwin + gdb problems
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:46:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin + gdb problems
- References: <20021024140328.95569.qmail@web20006.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:03:28AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>Jennie,
>
>In case rebooting didn't fix it...
>
>> Starting program: /home/Jennie Nguyen/a.exe
> ^
>I believe gdb may have problems with spaces in the path to the
>filename. Try moving to /tmp or editing /etc/passwd to remove the
>space from your /home directory.
AFAIK, this is a myth. If someone wants to actually verify this then
that would be helpful. Every time I've tried debugging a file from a
directory with a space in it, it works fine although others have
supposedly said that it didn't work. I don't recall anyone posting a
failing test case, however.
cgf
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