Re: [RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> From: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:50:11 +0200
> 
>   Using current CVS source, 
> I am unable to handle files having Dos style
> directory specifications inside the stabs debugging information
> (but I don't think that this is stabs specific).
> Release 7.3 has the same problem...
> 
>   The program test.exe below has been compiled with Free Pascal
> for win32 target (more or less mingw).
>   When I try to insert a break point at a line of current file,
> the addr_string computed is "e:/pas/trunk/fpcsrc/ide/test.pas:166".
>   But locate_first_half function stops at the first colon
> and GDB complains because file "e" is not found.
> 
>   I first tried to add double-quotes around the file name,
> but this was not enough... I suspect that the other changes
> below that I had to add are just errors in the current implementation...
>   See below for submitted patch.
> 
>   Nevertheless, this implementation will probably fail miserably for
> file names containing double-quotes, not sure if this is allowed
> on some OS's or FileSystems...
> 
>   Comments most welcome

Thanks for working on this, but I don't like the idea of quoting file
names internally just to work around this problem.  I think we need to
teach linespec about DOS-style file names instead.