Re: [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching

Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09T13:36:03Z

> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:58:38 +0000
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> dj@redhat.com,
> ktietz70@googlemail.com,
> binutils@sourceware.org,
> gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
>
> > > The one's left are: 1 in a linux-native only file (never cares
> > > for other filesystem semantics), and a couple in the coff and
> > > mdebug readers. The latter could be rewritten in terms of
> > > lbasename, but I'm not sure whether gcc outputs a literal '/' in
> > > that case even when building on mingw. If so, and we changed them,
> > > we'd be breaking reading these files on Windows
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand how would that break on Windows. Could you
> > elaborate? And what "couple of coff and mdebug readers" did you have
> > in mind?
>
> Sorry, in the hurry, I had a (another) brain cramp. Wouldn't break.
> Still it'd be useless to change this _if_ gcc hardcodes '/'. Dunno
> whether it does.

At least on MinGW, GCC simply uses whatever was passed on the command
line. I tested that by compiling the same source file, passing it to
GCC with different flavors of slashes, including mixed ones. Then in
GDB I typed "info sources" and saw the source file with exactly the
same flavor of slashes as what I typed on the GCC command line.

Funnily enough, when the file name given to GCC includes at least one
backslash, "info sources" shows the same file twice, like this:

(gdb) info sources
Source files for which symbols have been read in:

Source files for which symbols will be read in on demand:

d:/usr/eli/data/dbw.c, d:\usr\eli/data\dbw.c

This is with GDB 7.2 and GCC 3.4.2. That means we compare files with
strcmp/strcasecmp somewhere, and don't know that / and \ are
equivalent here. Or maybe it's a bug in the ancient version of GCC I
use.