Re: type/main_type/field size [Re: [patch] static_kind -> bit0, bit1]

Joel Brobecker
2008-10-08T03:32:03Z

> > I think it is kind of ugly, and i tried to think about it for a while,
> > but I don't see many possible solutions if we don't want to increase
> > the gdbtype struct size.
>
> BTW are there some measurements if sizeof (type / main_type / field)
> matters?

Once in a while, Tom will post some numbers with each of his size
improvements. He worked pretty hard at reducing the sizes by some
bytes, so I'd like to know what he thinks of the increase before
adding a pointer back (4-8 bytes).

(2MB seems like a small and reasonable increase to me)

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Joel