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Re: [patch 5/6] set debug auto-load
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 20:32:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] set debug auto-load
- References: <20120324184029.GF26662@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83398xu7n5.fsf@gnu.org> <20120325191009.GA11132@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83aa34s7jn.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:19:08 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Used:
> > For example the list of directories from which it is safe to auto-load files
> > (@pxref{auto-load safe-path}) applies to canonicalized filenames which may not
> > be too obvious while setting it up.
>
> OK. Although now I wonder whether this whole sentence could be made
> simpler and more clear. What exactly does it want to say? what "may
> not be too obvious"?
I do not know much. But I guess if you have a mess of symlinks then you may
set it as expected and it does not work.
It does not have much real world cases, I found I need some general debug mode
so instead of just ad-hoc printfs I made it an official feature.
Regards,
Jan