Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

[I added gdb-patches to the discussion.]

> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:40:30 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
> 	Ryan Mansfield <RMansfield@qnx.com>
> 
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:30:11AM -0500, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> > > 
> > > But the form of the file names is determined by the platform on which
> > > you compiled the sources, right?  
> > 
> > Right and this is the problem: IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH is determined at compile
> > time only by platform on which gdb will be running. Gdb, however needs to
> > deal with binaries possibly built on a platform with different file system
> > (we often have this case: gdb on POSIX file system debugging binary built on
> > windows).
> 
> I also regularly work with the other direction, POSIX build system and
> Windows debug host.

In that case, I think it's wrong to allow both styles of slashes and
absolute file names.  Instead, we should have a user option to set the
correct style, which would default to the convention of the platform
where GDB was built to run.

If you agree with this approach, then the _ANY version of the macros
is not needed.