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Re: [RFC] fullname attribute for GDB/MI stack frames


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:48:21AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
>> Please! I'm gonna cry! you are suggesting to revert the code that took
>> hard work to get right!  openp used to do d:foo -> d:/foo, but that
>> was blatantly wrong and caused bugs.  Let's not go that way just
>> because some test case doesn't seem 100% right!
>> 
>> I am frustrated by my evident inability to communicate to you all the
>> simple truth: openp IS OKAY, IT DOESN'T NEED ANY FIXING!
>
>From this email, I understand completly why it would be impossible for
>GDB to translate \abc into an absolute path. If the compiler was nieve
>enought to put \abc, it's possible that the current drive is different
>when GDB looks for the file then when the user compiled it. (Sorry, I
>know you already said this, but I believe if I type it all out, it just
>might sink in)
>
>I asked a question in this Email,
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2005-05/msg00100.html

Has anyone actually confirmed that gcc will put \abc or x:abc in source
files?

cgf


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