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


On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:49:13PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:36:38 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > I've just never seen that before. I always thought that \abc actually
> > referred to A:\abc or whatever the current drive is.
> 
> It does refer to the current drive.  But it's still okay to treat that
> as an absolute file name.

How can that be?  The usual definition of absolute is that it doesn't
rely on current state to resolve it.  If you don't have the drive, then
you don't know where the file is.

What have I missed?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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