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Re: [RFA/commit] Improve gdb_realpath for Windows hosts
> Someone said that "MAX_PATH" is not enough about several months ago
> when we were discussing some breakpoint issue see:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-06/msg00101.html
My understanding is:
- The way this function is called, its output is limited to MAX_PATH;
- If the canonialized path does in fact exceed MAX_PATH, then
the canonicalization fails, and we fallback on the old way
(strdup).
So I do not see the problem with the current approach. There might
be a better implementation, allowing longer paths, but this is
already better than before. And if there is a better implementation
indeed, it does need to work on all supported versions of Windows
(I think we need to support at least as back as XP, possibly older).
--
Joel