[patch 2/9] Code cleanup: Drop IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH checks

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:39:38 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:32:25 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >  int
> > >  compare_filenames_for_search (const char *filename, const char *search_name)
> > > @@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ compare_filenames_for_search (const char *filename, const char *search_name)
> > >       to put the "c:file.c" name into debug info.  Such compatibility
> > >       works only on GDB built for DOS host.  */
> > >    return (len == search_len
> > > -	  || IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (filename[len - search_len - 1])
> > > +	  || (!IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (search_name)
> > > +	      && IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (filename[len - search_len - 1]))
> > >  	  || (HAS_DRIVE_SPEC (filename)
> > >  	      && STRIP_DRIVE_SPEC (filename) == &filename[len - search_len]));
> > >  }
> > 
> > I don't understand why the "match up to a slash" rule is now limited
> > to non-absolute file names.
> 
> FILENAME may contain for example:           /path/to//file.c
> Then we may request to put a breakpoint to:          /file.c:main
> And without
> the '!IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (search_name) &&' part it would falsely match.

Thanks for explaining.  However, IMO i's wrong to test for double
slash with IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH, because the same could happen with
foo//bar.c, right?  So why not explicitly test for consecutive
slashes instead?