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Re: Using gdb with emacs
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Per Bothner |
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Re: Using gdb with emacs |
Date: |
09 Sep 2001 21:45:00 -0700 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> I don't see how can GDB do what you want; perhaps I'm missing
> something.
>
> The debug info recorded in the executable says that one of the source
> files is ../foo/bar/baz.c. How can GDB know that a file you are
> visiting, whose absolute file name is /home/user/project/foo/bar/baz.c,
> is that file?
Because gcc, for each .o file (at least when using stabs) emits
*both* the relative filename *and* the current working directory.
So gdb can calculete the absolute filename.
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--Per Bothner
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