From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20567 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2006 19:01:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 20559 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Apr 2006 19:01:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:01:41 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-90-229.inter.net.il [80.230.90.229]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DBE13445 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:01:25 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20060406140542.GA26169@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:05:42 -0400) Subject: Re: text file formats Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii 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> 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/msg00078.txt.bz2 > 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.