From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
ARistovski@qnx.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
RMansfield@qnx.com
Subject: Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8x31tjjj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107131649.GA31612@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:16:49 -0500)
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:16:49 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, ARistovski@qnx.com,
> gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, RMansfield@qnx.com
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:20:29AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We must have a way for a user on a Posix system to have file names
> > with `\' or `:'. It is IMO unacceptable to say that these cases,
> > however corner, are simply not supported. Other packages, such as
> > Bash, do give you a way of having them, albeit an inconvenient way.
>
> Can you suggest one that does not break these more common cases?
>
> Perhaps a tri-state option...
Yes, I still think a user option is the best solution.
Failing that, perhaps some kind of quoting would do. But I'm afraid
that would require lots of changes to GDB code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20080106054030.GA10410@caradoc.them.org>
2008-01-06 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 20:03 ` Doug Evans
2008-01-06 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 21:07 ` Doug Evans
2008-01-07 3:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-07 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 13:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-07 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-07 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 17:36 ` Doug Evans
2008-01-07 21:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 21:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-08 4:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-08 13:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-09 16:13 Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-01-09 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-09 19:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-10 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-10 14:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2008-01-04 19:26 Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-01-04 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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