Re: Three weeks to branching (gdb 7.5 release)

Doug Evans
2012-05-20T14:59:56Z

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I only know of one issue, which is a noticeable performance degradation
>> that was reported a while ago:
>>
>>    http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14002
>>
>> There is a workaround, so could possibly considered NOT blocking
>> for the release.
>>
>> Tom, I put you as the main lead on this one, with ???, as one
>> of your commits was identified as the one after which the slow-
>> down is noticed. It's a first guess; we can re-assign, including
>> to myself, if you'd like.
>
> I'm working on it as well.
> I fixed one significant memory issue post 7.4, and there's more I'd
> like to do, hopefully for 7.5.

I've replaced Tom's name with mine for 14002, as I'm now actively working on it.

I've also added 14125 which I also want to have fixed for 7.5, and I'm
working on that too.
For that my plan is to add a "bit" (TBD if it's just a bit) that
specifies for each symbol whether it's in GLOBAL_BLOCK or
STATIC_BLOCK.