Re: [RFC] fullname attribute for GDB/MI stack frames

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:22:31PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:19:45 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 03:17:55PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:13:33PM -0500, Dennis Brueni wrote:
> > > > > Again, for the fullname regex, I would recommend using the 
> > > > > same regex used in mi-file.exp. This would be like 
> > > > > fullname="/.*basics.c" This forces the regex to ensure that 
> > > > > the path is absolute, which the check you have does not.
> > > 
> > > Will GDB always output absolute paths that start with "/"?  What about
> > > non-Cygwin Windows for example?  DJGPP?
> 
> To answer Daniel's question: no, absolute file names on DOS/Windows
> systems do not necessarily begin with a slash.
> 
> > Like Dennis noted, it could be possible that the fullname might not
> > start with a "/". I originally posted the patch with the fullname
> > starting with a "/", and since then, there hasn't been any complaints.
> > If there is a better regex that ensures that the fullname is absolute
> > I'd be happy to change the mi-file.exp test to it.
> 
> The proper regexp should be something like
> 
>    \([A-z]:\)?[/\\].*basics.c

Eli, is this correct? Is a proper fullname in windows \abc? Should the
regex move the \\ into the first grouping with the drive letter?

  \([A-z]:\\\)?/.*basics.c

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi