[patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Jan 8 13:47:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:24:33AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes, but why does GDB want to know at startup something about start.S
> and crtn.S?

I believe we need this information when building psymtabs.  If not, it
may be because we need symbol information for the program entry point.
One or the other.

> Anyway, whatever problems can happen with these calls if we adopt my
> suggestion of a user option, they already happen today.  So there's
> nothing to lose here.

True.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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