2011/3/8 Pedro Alves <pe...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2011 12:01:24, Kai Tietz wrote:
>> See for example remote-fileio.c in remote_fileio_extract_ptr_w_len()
>> as an example. There is more then one use-case.
>
> That '/' has nothing to do with path separators. It's simply
> a separator between a pointer and a length fields. E.g.,
>
> @item Request:
> @samp{Fopen,@var{pathptr}/@var{len},@var{flags},@var{mode}}
>
> @var{pathptr} is a pointer that points to the real path
> in the inferior's memory, not a path string.
>
> --
> Pedro Alves
>
Well, a better example is elfstab_offset_sections() in elfread.c.
Another is in find_file_and_directory() in dwarf2read.c file.
Regards,
Kai
