Re: [Bug gas/2582] dwarf2dbg.c embeds absolute filename path with hard-coded / separator

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Bill,

> Another thought -- why not look for the THIRD character to be a backslash?  This will handle not only 
> absolute paths that start with <single drive letter>:\ but also relative paths that start with ..\ -- what do 
> you think?  --Bill

That wouldn't work.  Not all relative paths start with "..".  For 
example if the file is in a sub-directory of the build directory then 
the path might just be "<sub-dir-name>/<file-name>".

In addition it is possible that the backslash character might be there 
to escape an unconventional path name character.  For example suppose 
that (in a UNIX style naming convention) the root directory contains a 
sub-directory called "A Directory", and the code wants to reference a 
file called "Foo" inside this directory.  This would appear as

  /A\ Directory/Foo

Cheers
  Nick