RE: [rfc] Print MI fullname even for non-existing files

Marc Khouzam
2012-12-20T14:33:04Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Tom Tromey
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 1:33 PM
> To: Jan Kratochvil
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [rfc] Print MI fullname even for non-existing files
>
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> symtab_to_fullname now always returns non-NULL.
>
> Jan> Currently this patch only changes from user point of view MI:
> Jan> (gdb) -file-list-exec-source-file
> Jan> ^done,line="1",file="deleted.c",macro-info="0"
> ->
> Jan>
> ^done,line="1",file="deleted.c",fullname="/path/to/deleted.c",
> macro-info="0"
>
> Jan> Is there a serious reason why fullname was suppressed for
> Jan> non-existing files? While it breaks MI compatibility in
> some way I
> Jan> find it an acceptable change.
>
> It seems pretty reasonable to me as well.

For what it's worth, that is an ok change for Eclipse (we don't
use that command).

Marc