From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dj@redhat.com,
ktietz70@googlemail.com, binutils@sourceware.org,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqq0pj4b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103091146.36746.pedro@codesourcery.com>
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:46:36 +0000
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> dj@redhat.com,
> ktietz70@googlemail.com,
> binutils@sourceware.org,
> gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
>
> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 05:29:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Actually, is there any case where lbasename wouldn't
> > > work instead of filename_dirrchr?
> >
> > Almost: lbasename returns a pointer one character after the last
> > slash. It also skips the drive letter on DOS/Windows (which might be
> > TRT, actually).
>
> I meant a valid use case in the code bases.
Sorry for my misunderstanding.
> Might as well cook up a (gdb) patch. Find it pasted below. Does it
> look good to you?
Yes, looks fine. Thanks.
> The one's left are: 1 in a linux-native only file (never cares
> for other filesystem semantics), and a couple in the coff and
> mdebug readers. The latter could be rewritten in terms of
> lbasename, but I'm not sure whether gcc outputs a literal '/' in
> that case even when building on mingw. If so, and we changed them,
> we'd be breaking reading these files on Windows
Sorry, I don't understand how would that break on Windows. Could you
elaborate? And what "couple of coff and mdebug readers" did you have
in mind?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-09 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-08 10:56 Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 11:25 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 12:01 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 12:43 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-08 12:48 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 13:33 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-08 13:37 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 18:50 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-08 18:51 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <E1Pwupb-0001ns-M8__47566.5626036518$1299582745$gmane$org@fencepost.gnu.org>
2011-03-08 11:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-08 15:11 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 15:30 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-08 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 19:41 ` DJ Delorie
2011-03-08 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-08 22:38 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-09 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09 11:46 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-09 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-03-09 12:58 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-09 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 16:40 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-09 14:37 ` Build regression [Re: [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching] Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-09 15:02 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-09 15:08 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-12 16:44 ` [patch libiberty include]: Add additional helper functions for directory-separator searching Kai Tietz
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