Using gdb with emacs

[Per Bothner]

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

> I don't see how can GDB do what you want; perhaps I'm missing
> something.
> 
> The debug info recorded in the executable says that one of the source
> files is ../foo/bar/baz.c.  How can GDB know that a file you are
> visiting, whose absolute file name is /home/user/project/foo/bar/baz.c,
> is that file?

Because gcc, for each .o file (at least when using stabs) emits
*both* the relative filename *and* the current working directory.
So gdb can calculete the absolute filename.
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