[PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Fri Mar 13 06:04:00 GMT 2015


> From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
>         binutils@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:16:55 -0400
> 
> On Wednesday, March 11 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> I think it might be good to tell people how to specify where the
> >> uncompressed file is located.
> >
> > Saying "system-wide temporary directory" does tell that, doesn't it?
> > Users of each platform know where that is, I think.
> 
> Why not say:
> 
>   system-wide temporary directory (e.g., @file{/tmp} on some systems)
> 
> ?

That'd be fine with me, thanks.



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