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Re: [patchv3 13/11] Make relative-with-system-absolute the default
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Doug> I can also imagine wanting system supplied separate debug info
> Doug> treated differently from separate debug info files for the app
> Doug> being debugged.
>
> Are you saying this is something you actively want?
> Or something that someone might conceivably want?
It's not something I will run into today.
> If the latter, then I suggest we not do it until someone presents a
> reason that they need it. To me it seems like a complication that, in
> practice, nobody would use.
If I have a reason to turn on foo-with-system-absolute,
I would still not want the behaviour of gdb to change because the
build system for my app generates separate debug info files.
"system" is being conflated with "separate debug info", and I'm not
comfortable with that.