From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1591 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2009 08:32:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 1579 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Mar 2009 08:32:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail78.messagelabs.com (HELO mail78.messagelabs.com) (195.245.230.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:32:17 +0000 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: francois.rigault@amadeus.com X-Msg-Ref: server-9.tower-78.messagelabs.com!1236760333!37613258!1 X-StarScan-Version: 6.0.0; banners=-,-,- Received: (qmail 21059 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2009 08:32:13 -0000 Received: from mucsmtp2.amadeus.net (HELO mucsmtp2.amadeus.net) (193.23.186.180) by server-9.tower-78.messagelabs.com with RC4-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Mar 2009 08:32:13 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Improve path lookup of absolute source file MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: From: Francois Rigault Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:32:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-03/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote on 26/09/2008 15:01:55: > 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. Hi, would you accept a patch that uses a macro somewhere so that users can choose to compile gdb with or without the modified lookup routine ? Francois