From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30489 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2006 19:07:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 30355 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Apr 2006 19:07:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao04.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao04.cox.net) (68.230.240.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:07:37 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([68.9.66.48]) by eastrmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060406190732.ZZBF19943.eastrmmtao04.cox.net@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:07:32 -0400 Received: from bob by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FRZpW-0000sW-CC; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:07:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:32:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: text file formats Message-ID: <20060406190742.GA2769@brasko.net> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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/msg00079.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:01:34PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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? > > I don't know if that's Bob's reason, but one good reason is that > nowadays you can never know where (on what machine) the source files > live, and who edits them on what platform. For example, some > developers are so used to Microsoft's Visual Studio that they use it > to edit sources to be compiled on Unix (via the network). > > So it does make sense to support non-native formats, although adding > that to GDB would be a non-trivial job. This is exactly my reasoning. Usually I agree 100% with Daniel, but in this circumstance, I just think it's wrong to say "sorry, your out of luck" to the user. Bob Rossi