> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:36:20 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I can simplify this a whole lot further :-)
>
> You should use symtab_to_fullname. Then all the fallback logic is
> unnecessary; if symtab_to_full
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:04:10 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It strikes me as odd that you can use "edit" if GDB doesn't know where
> the source file is.
I thought about that, and decided to leave that code a
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:04:10 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It strikes me as odd that you can use "edit" if GDB doesn't know where
> the source file is. I realize this is a pre-existing condition, but...
> A
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:42:01 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The use of "" is not a bulletproof quoting mechanism
Yep, known. But it's IMHO the most portable one can get without going
into the pains of quote
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:18:03 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Or using a mechanism to start other processes that takes an argument
> vector :-)
Unfortunately, that's not a magic wand, either. Specifically, in the
case in point,
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:48:46PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Here's the revised patch:
The rest of this is mostly stylistic; a few comments...
> + /* If we don't already know the full absolute file name of the
> + source file, find it now. */
> + if (NULL == sal.sy
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:36:50PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I ended up committing the attached. Note that it quotes the file
> name, to account for possible special characters that would confise
> the shell. (I use "..." for quoting because this is more portable to
> various shells, includin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:02:27AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:42:01 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gdb@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The use of "" is not a bulletproof quoting mechanism
>
> Yep, known. But
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:30:11PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:58:25 -0400
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > While using gdb 6.3, I was having a problem with the directory name and the
> > file name being concatenated by the edit command without an intervening
> >
