From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 60271 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2019 12:55:11 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 60254 invoked by uid 89); 21 Apr 2019 12:55:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Would, H*F:D*ca, HX-Languages-Length:881, H*Ad:D*ca X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:55:09 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.11] (unknown [192.222.164.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D1B41E175; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:55:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Fix lookup of separate debug file on MS-Windows To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <83ef5ze84y.fsf@gnu.org> <03da9895-5136-1da6-8c37-c4be0d06b608@gmail.com> <8336mfdumf.fsf@gnu.org> <831s1va7h8.fsf@gnu.org> From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: <2697b965-e108-5e7c-75d3-9baa7493141c@simark.ca> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <831s1va7h8.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00406.txt.bz2 On 2019-04-21 8:05 a.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Ping! > > Would people please voice their opinions regarding preservation of the > drive letter (and removing the colon) vs just dropping the drive > letter altogether? I'd like to fix this issue for the upcoming > release of GDB 8.3. I first read your patch (which initiated this thread), and my first reaction was also to be surprised that we would lose the drive letter. The risk of clash is low, but why take that risk at all when it's easy enough to keep the drive letter and just strip the colon? I don't know the complete history of this, so if you know about distributions that place debug files in a path without the drive letter (what your patch implements), then I would be fine if GDB looked in both places, starting with the path including the drive letter. Simon