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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv2] Support .dwp with the name of symlinked binary file
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21047.38031.345197.307437@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130916190151.GA24936@host2.jankratochvil.net>

Jan Kratochvil writes:
 > ISTM people want the directories normalized against any "../".

True.

OTOH, gdb can't know if/when there is an formal abstraction being implemented in symlinks (and thus when to terminate its realpath'ing).  I can imagine providing some means to handle this, but we don't have to add it until there's a compelling need.

 > IIUC you were proposing thin 'struct gdb_bfd *' wrapper around 'bfd *'.

It was a possibility to explore, nothing concrete.

 > In the patchset above I have found we do not IMO need non-canonical filename
 > from 'bfd *', it is enough to have non-canonical filename from 'objfile *'.

Sure.

 > > And if we record the original file name we can always
 > > get the realpath name,
 > 
 > Calling gdb_realpath() dynamically is very expensive.

I wasn't suggesting that (in and of itself). :-)
[modulo, if one were to go in that direction one would implement the realpath cache, and then one might decide whether to still head in that direction]


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 13:18 Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-06 18:29 ` Doug Evans
2013-09-09 17:53   ` Tom Tromey
2013-09-09 22:59     ` Doug Evans
2013-09-16 19:01   ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-16 23:30     ` Doug Evans [this message]
2013-09-15 19:40 ` obsolete: " Jan Kratochvil

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