Re: proposal: substitute-path handles foreign dir separators

Pedro Alves
2010-12-17T19:44:05Z

On Friday 17 December 2010 19:23:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks. I have 2 comments:
>
> . if we are going to add this, it needs documentation

For sure. I only posted what I had because the subject came up, not
because I considered it completely finished.

> . why only source file names? the issue is relevant to any file name

Can you give an example? My thinking is/was we should keep target paths, host
paths and source paths separate worlds. Target path comparisions are handled
with "set/show target-file-system-kind". Host paths should be compared with
other host paths using FILENAME_CMP, which uses the appropriate native
host compare function. The source paths setting is for the case of
e.g., a arm-linux program that was compiled on a Windows machine,
and is later debugged on an x86-linux host gdb (against a arm-linux
gdbserver). You want gdb to consider the target filesystem of unix
kind, but, you want source path comparisions with paths embedded in
debug info to be permissive by using dos style path comparisons.

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Pedro Alves