From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11966 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2002 15:19:03 -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 11950 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 15:19:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 15:19:00 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (tooth.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.29]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3623580021C; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:19:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DECCDD4.1090808@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:19:00 -0000 From: Fernando Nasser Organization: Red Hat Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Shorten the maint.exp symbols tests References: <20021022015852.GA22669@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 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