Re: SEGV in dwarf2read.c -- gdb-7.2

Tom Tromey
2011-11-03T16:43:58Z

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> I guess for performance reasons, the CU header read-in
Jan> vs. load_full_comp_unit is a big difference. There are already
Jan> some PRs (such as 12828 (a)) where GDB needlessly expands too many
Jan> CUs "locking itself" by inacceptable performance.

Does the CU cache serve a useful purpose these days?
I wonder whether we could just remove it.

Tom