From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10929 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2010 21:53:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 10921 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2010 21:53:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:53:17 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o54Lqrob018548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:52:54 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o54Lqrqh018218; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:52:53 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o54LqqNd006752; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:52:52 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 524FB37897F; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:52:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Sergio Durigan Junior Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts References: <20100421203354.GD6588@adacore.com> <20100505184859.GA29308@adacore.com> <201005062056.17148.sergiodj@redhat.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:53:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201005062056.17148.sergiodj@redhat.com> (Sergio Durigan Junior's message of "Thu, 6 May 2010 20:56:16 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 2010-06/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Sergio" =3D=3D Sergio Durigan Junior writes: Joel> I didn't get much feedback on this. I thought it would have stirred Joel> a little more controversy ;-). Since the feedback that we did get Joel> went both ways, we'll just keep that an AdaCore-specific feature. Sergio> I know it may be too late for that and I don't want to bring old Sergio> discussions back to live, but FWIW I agree with you and Andr=C3=A9, Sergio> in the way that GDB should correctly handle the backslash on Sergio> MinGW environments. Thanks for speaking up. This seems reasonable to me too. I am not as certain about the particular implementation, though it is hard to see how else it could work. Tom