From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Finding absolute path from relative.
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030929022538.GA9969@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929022128.GB10687@white>
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:28PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> 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?
Well, often the input file has a specified directory. That gets tried
first.
Anyway, there's a good comment or two about this in the source code...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-29 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 2:25 Bob Rossi
2003-09-29 2:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-09-29 2:33 ` Bob Rossi
2003-09-29 2:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-29 4:58 ` Bob Rossi
2003-09-29 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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