From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4505 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2006 19:20:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 4469 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Apr 2006 19:20:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (HELO sadr.equallogic.com) (66.155.203.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:20:55 +0000 Received: from sadr.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k36JKrko001847 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:20:53 -0400 Received: from M31.equallogic.com (M31.equallogic.com [172.16.1.31]) by sadr.equallogic.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id k36JKq3L001842; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:20:52 -0400 Received: from pkoning.equallogic.com ([172.16.1.169]) by M31.equallogic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:20:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17461.27155.72332.604977@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:55:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: eliz@gnu.org Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: text file formats References: <20060405223122.GB11610@brasko.net> <20060405233938.GA11013@nevyn.them.org> <20060406001455.GC11610@brasko.net> <20060406011732.GA12814@nevyn.them.org> <20060406032702.GE11610@brasko.net> <20060406133829.GI11610@brasko.net> <20060406140542.GA26169@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:05:42 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz >> >> >> Why are you going to tremendous lengths to accomodate non-native >> newline conventions? Is there some good reason I've missed? Eli> I don't know if that's Bob's reason, but one good reason is that Eli> nowadays you can never know where (on what machine) the source Eli> files live, and who edits them on what platform. For example, Eli> some developers are so used to Microsoft's Visual Studio that Eli> they use it to edit sources to be compiled on Unix (via the Eli> network). Eli> So it does make sense to support non-native formats, although Eli> adding that to GDB would be a non-trivial job. This is only an issue if the source control system doesn't cure it. Subversion does, for example. paul