From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23151 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2008 16:56:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 23142 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Sep 2008 16:56:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:55:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443762A96D4; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:55:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id WQUgkJcD-7-m; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:55:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA432A96BF; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 32E4CE7ACD; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:56:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/commit/dwarf] Create partial symbols for nested subprograms Message-ID: <20080912165541.GE3714@adacore.com> References: <20080910201959.GC10133@adacore.com> <20080910203437.GA26162@caradoc.them.org> <20080911175422.GS12222@adacore.com> <20080911183730.GA17809@caradoc.them.org> <20080912041800.GA3714@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-09/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 > Joel> What approach are you going to take? > > My patch defers reading partial symbol tables until they are needed. > This is done on a per-objfile basis, so some user requests can be > satisfied without reading all the psymbols for the inferior. Oh, wow. How do you detect when partial symbols are needed or not? (it's ok if you don't have time to answer my question now - I will find out anyways when you do submit the patch here, so...) -- Joel