Re: [Patch] Improve path lookup of absolute source file

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-26T13:02:41Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:47:09PM +0200, Francois Rigault wrote:
> In order to let gdb find the files without generating IOs, a simple
> trick is to check that symbol source file and target source file have
> the same basename, as source file used at compilation time and the one
> used for debugging are unlikely to have different basenames. See the
> patch below against gdb-6.8.

I'm nervous about "unlikely". What happens before and after if they
do have different basenames? e.g. a symlink foo.c to foo_x86.c; if
GDB or GCC resolves the symlink at some point we'll mismatch and now
completely fail to locate the file.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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