Re: handling of absolute source file paths (feature wish/implementation idea)

[Gernot Hillier <gernot.hillier@siemens.com>]

Hi!

Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2004 16:07 schrieb Daniel Jacobowitz:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:01:14PM +0100, Gernot Hillier wrote:
> > Revision 1.39, Mon Jan 13 20:11:47 2003 UTC by drow
> > * source.c (openp): If the file does not exist don't necessarily
> >   search the path.
> >
> > 1. Reverting the change in the mainline as we did. I currently can see no
> > real reason why this change was made but I think there was a reason. So I
> > assume you won't like it, do you?
>
> I recommend you read the list archives to see why the change was made.
>
> You'd have found this:
> > Sometime last April, when Joel committed a patch to not try to open
> > directories as programs, we started always searching the given path in
> > openp ().  Try it:
> > % gdb ./ls
> > will open /bin/ls if there is no ls in the current directory.

Sorry, I tried to search in the gdb archives for some keywords but the web 
search was terribly slow and so I gave up after three tries or so. But yes, I 
should've done it... :-}

> > 3. Implement a new setting "source-absolute-prefix" (analog to the
> > already existing "solib-absolute-prefix") which allows the user to set a
> > prefix for given absolute source code paths.
>
> I think this is a good idea, but let's see if anyone else has an
> opinion.

And what about idea 2 (using the already given pathes, not using another 
list)? This would be much less work to implement ;-) Let's say an additional 
parameter of openp which is only set by open_source_file() and only if 
"source-absolute-search-mode" is enabled or so...

-- 
Bye,

Gernot Hillier
CT SE 2
Siemens AG, Mch P