From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using gdb with emacs
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <87g09ybt9c.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00066.html

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Eli> What happens if you do this:
Eli> (gdb) dir /home/tromey/gnu/egcs/mauve/gnu/testlet/java/text/DateFormat
Eli> (gdb) break Test.java:83
Eli> Does it work then?

Tom> Yes, that will work for this particular case.

I spoke too soon.  I tried it, and it does not work:

    (gdb) b Test.java:58
    Breakpoint 1 at 0x80afa20: file ../mauve/gnu/testlet/java/io/ObjectInputOutput/Test.java, line 58.
    (gdb) dir ~/gnu/egcs/mauve/mauve/gnu/testlet/java/text/DateFormat/
    Source directories searched: /x2/tromey/gnu/egcs/mauve/mauve/gnu/testlet/java/text/DateFormat:$cdir:$cwd
    (gdb) b Test.java:58
    Note: breakpoint 1 also set at pc 0x80afa20.
    Breakpoint 2 at 0x80afa20: file ../mauve/gnu/testlet/java/io/ObjectInputOutput/Test.java, line 58.


I dug through the gdb source a bit.  The problem is that `dir' is
(apparently) only used to find the source file for listing purposes
(source.c).  It doesn't appear to be used when trying to determine
which source file a user means when he (or Emacs) types "b Test.java"
(this code is in symtab.c).

Tom