From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4300 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2006 19:25:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 4277 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2006 19:25:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il (HELO gandalf.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:24:42 +0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HYM02682; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:24:07 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-205-93.inter.net.il [83.130.205.93]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CTN21821 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:24:05 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:30:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20060222043527.GA10442@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:27 -0500) Subject: Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20060221213324.GA30729@nevyn.them.org> <20060222043527.GA10442@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: 2006-02/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:27 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > I don't actually know which form of paths current Windows MI clients > use. I agree that it would be convenient if they mostly used forward > slashes; but it looks like Eclipse uses native backslashed paths > primarily, so I've some interest in supporting them (to perturb Eclipse > as little as possible). If we want to support backslashes on Windows _and_ backslash-escaping without lots of ugly system-dependent code, then we will have to require to double each backslash. Which I think will be inconvenient.