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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:33:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching
From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, binutils@sourceware.org, 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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2011/3/8 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>:
> 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. =A0It's simply
> a separator between a pointer and a length fields. =A0E.g.,
>
> =A0@item Request:
> =A0@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
>

Well, a better example is elfstab_offset_sections() in elfread.c.
Another is in find_file_and_directory() in dwarf2read.c file.

Regards,
Kai