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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwtfo9frt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060221213324.GA30729@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:33:24 -0500)

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:33:24 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> Prompted by some of Andrew's paths-with-spaces patches, and by another
> project I'm working on that had to add a var_filename set variable,
> I've been looking over the way GDB handles quoting of arguments.
> It's a mess.  For most users this is not a big deal; the big losers
> are (A) pathnames with spaces in them, and (B) pathnames with backslashes in
> them, e.g. DJGPP and MinGW32 paths.

Daniel,

Thanks for a comprehensive summary.  I will read it in depth and
respond by this evening; for now just one comment: the DJGPP port
assumes the user mostly uses forward slashes, not backslashes.
Perhaps doing that on Windows as well will make the job of fixing
what's broken easier.  I don't think it's a bad limitation.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22  4:30 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22  4:35 ` Paul Koning
2006-02-22 19:57   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 21:57     ` Paul Koning
2006-02-23  4:25       ` Mark Kettenis
2006-02-25  1:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22  4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-22  5:24   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 20:59       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 17:39 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-22 18:01   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 18:05     ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-22 18:11       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:24         ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-02-22 19:28           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:53       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-23 11:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:51   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-23  4:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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