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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:25:00 -0000
From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Finding absolute path from relative.
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Hi,

I am thinking about the algorithm required to find the absolute path to
a source file given the relative path and the output from 'show dir'.

Is it really as easy as this,

for I in 'show dir' # for each directory in show dir
   if $I/relative_path exists 
      break; # Found absolute path.

Or does it get more complex and obfuscated?

Bob Rossi