[lldb-dev] FileSpec and normalization questions

[Jim Ingham via lldb-dev]

> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM Jim Ingham via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> The last time I looked at the llvm functions they only support the path syntax of the llvm host, which won't do for lldb.  But maybe they have gotten more general recently?
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> Yes in fact I was the one who updated them to make them more general.  You can now specify an enumeration parameter which will cause the algorithm to treat paths as either windows, posix, or whatever the host is. 

If I were guessing, I would have guessed that!

Since you probably know how the llvm functions work better than most, were there technical reasons why, having done the work on the llvm side, you didn't adopt them in lldb?  Or was it just a matter of time?

Jim