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Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
Cc: dje at google dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, ARistovski at qnx dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, RMansfield at qnx dot com
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:24:33 +0200
Subject: Re: [patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles
References: <2F6320727174C448A52CEB63D85D11F40A58@nova.ott.qnx.com> <20080106054030.GA10410@caradoc.them.org> <uprweu4nm.fsf@gnu.org> <e394668d0801061203u5c582be7m9f78cb5d4fdd3bc7@mail.gmail.com> <uir26u2sj.fsf@gnu.org> <e394668d0801061307x57c030frc9791d9cffef5a67@mail.gmail.com> <uhchqtgk5.fsf@gnu.org> <e394668d0801070935k1bbfd41cmc573f8dd9b934c70@mail.gmail.com> <u7iiltjbz.fsf@gnu.org> <20080107213543.GA29902@caradoc.them.org>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>

> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:35:43 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
> 	ARistovski@qnx.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, RMansfield@qnx.com
> 
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:30:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > What GDB code causes these calls, and why?
> 
> The symbol readers do a lot of pathname comparison when they read in
> debug information

Yes, but why does GDB want to know at startup something about start.S
and crtn.S?

Anyway, whatever problems can happen with these calls if we adopt my
suggestion of a user option, they already happen today.  So there's
nothing to lose here.

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