Index: symtab.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/symtab.c,v
retrieving revision 1.200
diff -u -p -r1.200 symtab.c
--- symtab.c	3 Jan 2009 05:57:53 -0000	1.200
+++ symtab.c	14 Jan 2009 17:10:27 -0000
@@ -281,8 +281,48 @@ lookup_partial_symtab (const char *name)
       }
 
     /* If the user gave us an absolute path, try to find the file in
-       this symtab and use its absolute path.  */
-    if (full_path != NULL)
+       this symtab and use its absolute path. 
+
+       psymtab_to_fullname has a significant cost as it calls
+       find_and_open_source, which itself does some I/O operation
+       (e.g. open). In cumulative, it can take several seconds with
+       large systems (around 4000 files), if the file is accessed
+       through a slow file system (e.g. NFS). Here is a shell script
+       that you can use to generate such a large system:
+
+       echo "void main () {}" > t.c
+       gcc -c -g t.c
+       previous=""
+       for i in 0 1 2 3 ; do
+	  for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
+	     for k in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
+		for l in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do
+		   name="${i}${j}${k}${l}"
+		   echo "void f_$name () {}" >> f_$name.c
+		   gcc -c -g f_$name.c
+		   ld -r  f_$name.o $previous -o main_$name
+		   rm f_*.o
+		   rm $previous
+		   previous=main_$name
+		done
+	    done
+	  done
+       done
+       gcc $previous t.o -o main
+
+       Using the following GDB commands should demonstrate the problem:
+       list <working directory>/f_0000.c:1
+       list <working directory>/f_3999.c:1
+
+       To reduce the cost, the full comparison is done if and only if
+       the base names are not different. This would have a low cost,
+       as it only does string manipulations. This optimisation has no
+       impact on relatives path (e.g. the more common 'list
+       f_0000.c:1'), as in this case full_path == NULL.  */
+
+    if (full_path != NULL
+	&& FILENAME_CMP (lbasename (full_path),
+			 lbasename (pst->filename)) == 0)
       {
 	psymtab_to_fullname (pst);
 	if (pst->fullname != NULL
@@ -292,7 +332,9 @@ lookup_partial_symtab (const char *name)
 	  }
       }
 
-    if (real_path != NULL)
+    if (real_path != NULL
+	&& FILENAME_CMP (lbasename (full_path),
+			 lbasename (pst->filename)) == 0)
       {
         char *rp = NULL;
 	psymtab_to_fullname (pst);