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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
	ARistovski@qnx.com, 	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, RMansfield@qnx.com
Subject: Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st 	yles
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108134716.GA15438@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u63y5t05a.fsf@gnu.org>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2F6320727174C448A52CEB63D85D11F40A58@nova.ott.qnx.com>
     [not found] ` <20080106054030.GA10410@caradoc.them.org>
2008-01-06 19:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 20:03     ` Doug Evans
2008-01-06 20:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 21:07         ` Doug Evans
2008-01-07  3:40           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-07  4:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 13:17               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-07 21:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07  4:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 17:36             ` Doug Evans
2008-01-07 21:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 21:36                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-08  4:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-08 13:47                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-01-09 16:13 Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-01-09 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-09 19:43   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-10  4:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10 14:01       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-04 19:26 Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-01-04 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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