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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	       gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131010163704.GA5234@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22RujxxHmieAMk6QeAH9DFQYa98gWAR+qPvWvKgMpuWsRg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:31:22 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> I'm trying to think of a use-case beyond the testsuite to better
> justify having such a feature.

When you do not use .gdb_index loading the symbols can be very slow.

For example if you just want to gcore a process to a file (/usr/bin/gcore) you
need no symbols for it.


Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26  1:29 [RFC] " Doug Evans
2013-09-26  1:54 ` Doug Evans
2013-09-26  8:28   ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-26  8:47 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-27 19:37   ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-08 18:23     ` [patch] OBJF_NOT_FILENAME [Re: [RFC] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path] Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-08 20:18       ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 13:23         ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 14:46   ` [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 16:37     ` Doug Evans
2013-10-10  4:58       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-10-10 16:31         ` Doug Evans
2013-10-10 16:37           ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2013-10-10 18:07           ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-10 18:55             ` Doug Evans
2013-12-02 21:26     ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil

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