From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13730 invoked by alias); 15 May 2008 20:05:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 13721 invoked by uid 22791); 15 May 2008 20:05:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 May 2008 20:05:05 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m4FK4nJm010754; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:04:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m4FK4n82007876; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:04:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:26:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200805152004.m4FK4n82007876@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: drow@false.org CC: aristovski@qnx.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org In-reply-to: <20080515194418.GA17618@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Thu, 15 May 2008 15:44:18 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC] new substitute path when loading feature References: <20080513190818.GA13776@caradoc.them.org> <4829E7DA.3010606@qnx.com> <20080513192041.GA14593@caradoc.them.org> <20080515160551.GA24101@caradoc.them.org> <20080515191642.GA15892@caradoc.them.org> <20080515193513.GA17156@caradoc.them.org> <482C91AA.30903@qnx.com> <20080515194418.GA17618@caradoc.them.org> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00492.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:44:18 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:40:26PM -0400, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: > > You will probably want this wrapped in an if. In fact, I don't see > > how will it work properly with only one flag - we probably don't > > want to do case-insensitive compare by default, but we do need to > > compare case insensitive for dos-like file system. > > Is this really necessary? As long as everything gives GDB the same > capitalization of the file (including debug info and any front end), > then we don't need to be case insensitive. > > If you think this is an important feature I can make the variable > tri-state: > > set support-dos-filenames (on|off|auto) > > Auto would be case sensitive on POSIX hosts, on wouldn't, auto would > be the default. Sorry, but I think this really is a bad idea. For a native debugger on a POSIX system I really don't want the oddities of dos-like filenames.