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From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.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: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 21:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2n143odrn.fsf@kelso.bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2561-Sun09Sep2001203900+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> I don't see how can GDB do what you want; perhaps I'm missing
> something.
> 
> The debug info recorded in the executable says that one of the source
> files is ../foo/bar/baz.c.  How can GDB know that a file you are
> visiting, whose absolute file name is /home/user/project/foo/bar/baz.c,
> is that file?

Because gcc, for each .o file (at least when using stabs) emits
*both* the relative filename *and* the current working directory.
So gdb can calculete the absolute filename.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/per/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-09 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-06 18:23 Tom Tromey
2001-09-06 19:56 ` Per Bothner
2001-09-07  1:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-07 13:26   ` Tom Tromey
2001-09-07 13:59     ` Tom Tromey
2001-09-08  0:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-09  8:03       ` Richard Stallman
2001-09-09  9:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-09 10:04       ` Per Bothner
2001-09-09 10:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-09 21:34           ` Per Bothner [this message]
2001-09-10 15:50           ` Richard Stallman
2001-09-10 19:58       ` Tom Tromey
2001-09-11  8:16         ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-11 11:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-09  8:03     ` Richard Stallman
2001-09-10 20:01       ` Tom Tromey
2001-09-08  7:27   ` Richard Stallman
2001-09-08 10:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-08 10:49   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-09-08 12:54     ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-10  9:04       ` pathmap patch dropped [was: Re: Using gdb with emacs] Jim Blandy

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