From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13209 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2002 19:57:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13202 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2002 19:57:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2002 19:57:52 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15DE3DAA; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:57:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D87893F.4090203@ges.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:57:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Carlton Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] convert blocks to dictionaries, phase 1, main part References: <3D87587B.9080304@ges.redhat.com> <3D877FA4.8050607@ges.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 >> Yep. If you think accessor macro's are a good idea, try debugging / >> using sim/common some time :-( (I can say this cos I was part responsible for that code :-) >> Then just mention those that do apply. >> (I thought DanielJ indicated that you just doing an initial linear >> implementation?) > > > No, I'm doing initial implementations that are almost exactly the same > as currently used in struct block, namely hashtable + linear. (And > the linear has an 'expandable' variant for use by jv-lang.c and > mdebugread.c: this doesn't affect symbol searching, but it does affect > how you are allowed to add symbols.) > > I don't want to get rid of hashtables, certainly: that would slow > things down enormously. Ok. >>>> - you'll want to start compiling all targets > > >>> Sure. How do I go about doing this? I don't have access to a wide >>> range of machines; are there machines at Red Hat that I can use? > > >> target's not hosts :-) There is some sed in MAINTAINERS for >> generating the target list. Richard E, I believe, posted a script >> for doing all the config's and builds. > > > Oh, right. Thanks, that script looks useful. > > I'm curious exactly how long it will take my machine to do all those > builds - it's a 4-year-old 333 MHz PII, and I don't think it would be > proper for me to ask the math department to buy a new machine just for > working on GDB - but they might all finish overnight. If not, they'll > certainly finish over the weekend. There are now only 16(?) targets. I was originally building 50 targets (gdb not gdb+dejagnu -- dejagnu is what takes the time) using a P200 and it took ~8 hours. Andrew