Re: New warning in GDB 7.5

Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19T02:46:43Z

> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:49:21 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > > Are these really doing anything?
> >
> > Yes. They force GDB to read the symbol table of a couple of object
> > files, so the symbols from those files are known to GDB. That is
> > needed for several commands in the file to work right from the start
> > of the debugging session.
>
> Sounds like a workaround for a bug in GDB to me.

I always thought lazy loading of symbols was a feature, not a bug.