Re: handling of absolute source file paths

[Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>]

Hello, Eli!

This was FAST 8) , thank you!

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:51:55AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>   Each time GDB wants a source file, it tries all the directories in
>   the list, in the order they are present in the list, until it finds
>   a file with the desired name
> 
> Note that it doesn't specify what happens if the file's name starts
> with a slash or otherwise has leading directories.  It would be good
> to augment the manual with a more explicit description of cases such
> as yours.  Would you like to do that?

I will try. Actually, I think my case is covered, but more on it
certainly wouldn't hurt. I'm going to give some examples that I've
played with during testing. Another question is whether such kind of
detail is suitable for "Debugging with GDB", which I'd like to see as a
possibly shortest introduction; but I suppose we don't want to start
"GDB reference manual" now ;) .


> First, please in the future send patches as plain text, not as
> compressed binary attachments; that might help your patches to be
> reviewed sooner.

I will. The reason is highly motivating :) . I usually send them
compressed after an incident with a buggy MTA that reformatted my
patch.


> I don't know if you need an assignment for this patch, so I'll let
> others to give you a definitive answer.

Ok. Basically, it's a less-than-15-liner with repeating series, as
described in http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_6.html#SEC6 .


Waiting for an answer on both subjects...


With kind regards,
Baurjan.