From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Using gdb with emacs
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:16:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B9E2AB0.7000102@cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00103.html

> If I type `break
> /blah/blah/mauve/gnu/testlet/java/text/DateFormat/Test.java:57', gdb
> could very easily go down the list of directories as set by `dir', and
> for each one go through each file in the executable, concatenate and
> normalize, and then see if the answer is right.


When this was last discussed with mi/dos in mind, one additional nasty 
step was suggested - posix-ise or canonicalise all paths.  perhaps the 
recent ``/'' vs ``\'' cleanup has eliminated the need to do this.
andrew