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Re: Patch: search `directory' path for `break' files


> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: 01 Oct 2001 15:04:19 -0600
> 
> Eli> IIRC, last time this was discussed, Per Bothner suggested to use the
> Eli> current directory recorded in the debug info to convert a relative or
> Eli> semi-relative file name into an absolute one.
> 
> Thanks for reminding me of this.  I had misunderstood Per's messages.
> After seeing your message I went back and did some more investigation.
> 
> I think my patch is still a reasonable approach.
[...]
> So if that information is available, we use it.  But if it isn't, we
> search the user's `directory' path.  This seems like a reasonable
> approach to me.

Yes, I agree.

> Also, psymtabs don't have this directory information,
> so in that case we can't use this approach.  We must do the path
> searching.  Perhaps this is fixable; I don't know enough about
> psymtabs to say.

Elena, could you perhaps comment on this?


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