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From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Shorten the maint.exp symbols tests
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DECCDD4.1090808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021022015852.GA22669@nevyn.them.org>

We haven't heard anything against it from the other C++ folks and, IMO, 
we don't have any choice -- we just can't handle all symbols.

Please check it in and thank you for the fix.

Regards,
Fernando

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Right now maint.exp dumps the contents of all symbols.  There's a comment
> from Jim that, if the C library has debug info, this can take a long time. 
> And we bump the timeout way up.
> 
> Well, on my test systems it takes longer than just a long time: it takes
> about 45 minutes.  And the generated files are close to a gigabyte.  I think
> that's a little bit overkill, don't you? :)
> 
> I modified the test to dump just the symbols for the files we're interested
> in, and it works quite nicely.  This cuts the test time back to a reasonable
> amount.  Is this change OK?
> 


-- 
Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@redhat.com
2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-03 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-21 18:58 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-03  7:19 ` Fernando Nasser [this message]
2002-12-04 13:52   ` David Carlton
2002-12-04 14:20     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-04 14:47       ` David Carlton
2002-12-05 12:50         ` David Carlton

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