(not so OT) How to set a breakpoint in ddbg specifying an absolute path that contains whitespaces?

[David B. Held]

Ary Manzana wrote:
> Today I downloaded my own plugin at work to show it to some coworkers, 
> and found out that the debuggers doesn't work if the absolute path to 
> the files contains whitespaces.
> 
> In Ddbg the fix is to use double quotes
> -> bp "C:/hi bye/main.d":8
> 
> In Gdb, however:
> (gdb) break "C:/hi bye/main.d":8
> No source file named C:/hi bye/main.d":8
> 
> Single quotes doesn't work either.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do that? I could specify the relative path, but 
> if I have several source paths it's easier just to use the abosulte one.

My guess is that you can escape the spaces with backslashes:

 > (gdb) break "C:/hi\ bye/main.d":8

Ugly, but probably doable.  A good reason not to use spaces in pathnames. ;)

Dave