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Re: [patch] GDB 7.2: new feature for "backtrace" that cuts path to file (remain filename)
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: hal9000ed2k at gmail dot com, tromey at redhat dot com, dje at google dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, pmuldoon at redhat dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, drow at false dot org, jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:49:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: [patch] GDB 7.2: new feature for "backtrace" that cuts path to file (remain filename)
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On Monday 05 December 2011 05:17:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:52:34 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > And what about the question I asked regarding the default? AFAIK, the
> > current behavior is equivalent to `basename', not to `full'.
>
> I think I know the answer. We show by default whatever the compiler
> saw on its command line when it compiled the source file. E.g., if
> the command was
>
> gcc -c ... /foo/bar/baz.c
>
> then GDB will show "/foo/bar/baz.c", but if the compilation command
> was
>
> gcc -c ... baz.c
>
> then GDB will show "baz.c".
>
> Is that correct? If so, calling this `full' is misleading, I think,
If that is correct, than the default isn't "full", but
the proposed "no-compile-directory" ? Or maybe your compiler didn't emit
the comp_dir attribute in the debug info. I don't really know what
is the current default, and I'm now confused too. :-)
> unless we really change GDB to always show a full absolute file name
> there. If we don't want to change, I suggest to call it `normal' or
> maybe `default' (with explanation along the above lines).
I don't think normal or default are good names (with IMO default being
a really bad name), because that'll confuse things a lot if we ever
flip the default.
--
Pedro Alves