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Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Dec 7 11:02:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Eli> Hmm... I probably am missing something obvious, but fragments
Eli> like this one:

Eli>     +  if (IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (name))
Eli>     +    real_path = gdb_realpath (name);
Eli>     +

Eli> confuse me.  Aren't they supposed to convert non-absolute file
Eli> name, that is, say "if (!IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (name))"?

No, these calls canonicalize absolute paths.  I believe realpath()
isn't guaranteed to do anything sensible with a relative path.  I will
add comments to this effect.

Tom



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