From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20942 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2008 04:25:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 20926 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2008 04:25:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:25:04 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-32-211.inter.net.il [80.230.32.211]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JVO80242 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:24:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:25:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, ARistovski@qnx.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, RMansfield@qnx.com In-reply-to: <20080107213543.GA29902@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:35:43 -0500) Subject: Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <2F6320727174C448A52CEB63D85D11F40A58@nova.ott.qnx.com> <20080106054030.GA10410@caradoc.them.org> <20080107213543.GA29902@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-01/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:35:43 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, > ARistovski@qnx.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, RMansfield@qnx.com > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:30:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > What GDB code causes these calls, and why? > > The symbol readers do a lot of pathname comparison when they read in > debug information Yes, but why does GDB want to know at startup something about start.S and crtn.S? Anyway, whatever problems can happen with these calls if we adopt my suggestion of a user option, they already happen today. So there's nothing to lose here.