From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2620 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2011 12:43:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 2584 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2011 12:43:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:43:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 814 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2011 12:43:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 8 Mar 2011 12:43:36 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-27-generic; KDE/4.6.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Kai Tietz , Eli Zaretskii , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103081243.34340.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-03/txt/msg00531.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 08 March 2011 12:01:24, Kai Tietz wrote: > See for example remote-fileio.c in remote_fileio_extract_ptr_w_len() > as an example. There is more then one use-case. That '/' has nothing to do with path separators. It's simply a separator between a pointer and a length fields. E.g., @item Request: @samp{Fopen,@var{pathptr}/@var{len},@var{flags},@var{mode}} @var{pathptr} is a pointer that points to the real path in the inferior's memory, not a path string. -- Pedro Alves