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Re: [RFC] fullname attribute for GDB/MI stack frames
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:39:36 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> > The fullpath machinery was invented to let GDB
> > process file names for its internal purposes, and it does its job
> > well, because for those purposes, treating d:foo as absolute file
> > names is _exactly_ right.
>
> Huh? That's not true. xfullpath was created to avoid canonicalizing
> certain file symlinks, not to change anything having to do with
> absolute paths or directory links. Are you talking about some
> different function?
I was talking about openp, which is the core of resolving incomplete
file names.