From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2573 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2010 00:17:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 2486 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2010 00:17:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:17:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA992BAC6F for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vZ3igE6JkxHi for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284452BAB3B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 416CBF5895; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:17:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts Message-ID: <20100422001714.GD19194@adacore.com> References: <20100421203354.GD6588@adacore.com> <20100421220828.GA19620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100421220828.GA19620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-04/txt/msg00721.txt.bz2 > > (gdb) file c:\\foo\\bar.exe > > Reading symbols from c:\foo\bar.exe...done. > > Why not just use a "forward" slash? It's not always that easy - A lot of times, the user wants to copy/paste a path that's been printed by another tool. Also, the typical Windows user seems to think that he should be able to use a valid Windows path (which I agree)... -- Joel