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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 2282c80..dd8ae91 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -20007,9 +20007,13 @@ uses two different methods of looking for the debug file: @item For the ``debug link'' method, @value{GDBN} looks up the named file in the directory of the executable file, then in a subdirectory of that -directory named @file{.debug}, and finally under each one of the global debug -directories, in a subdirectory whose name is identical to the leading -directories of the executable's absolute file name. +directory named @file{.debug}, and finally under each one of the +global debug directories, in a subdirectory whose name is identical to +the leading directories of the executable's absolute file name. (On +MS-Windows/MS-DOS, the drive letter of the executable's leading +directories is converted to a one-letter subdirectory, i.e.@: +@file{d:/usr/bin/} is converted to @file{/d/usr/bin/}, because Windows +filesystems disallow colons in file names.) @item For the ``build ID'' method, @value{GDBN} looks in the |