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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ratmice@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] massively speed up "info var foo" on large programs
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCCCE27.2060804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22Tp5auHhj+-=qHW9XDEJfh-N1HjSBGYYYKVXutT-S0Zpw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/04/2012 05:06 AM, Doug Evans wrote:

> GDB's symbol support is a mess (IMO), and I wanted
> a name and usage to restrict it to the task at hand.  Anything more
> general and I was pretty sure this patch would get bogged down.


That'd be a bit beyond what I requested.  ;-)

> Later on I want to revamp the symbol API, but I don't want this patch
> tied down by that.


Certainly.  That'd clearly need to be a separate change.

> (For example, I don't want to bubble up the semantics of
> demangle_for_lookup to the caller of this function.   Here we have an
> msymbol, we know we have a mangled name.  If you want, I can go with
> lookup_symbol_in_objfile but rename it to
> lookup_symbol_in_objfile_from_linkage_name or some such.)


That'd be fine with me.  Thanks.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-24 17:59 Doug Evans
2012-05-24 21:28 ` Doug Evans
2012-05-25  4:29   ` Matt Rice
2012-05-25  8:21   ` Doug Evans
2012-05-25  8:51     ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-28  4:49       ` Doug Evans
2012-05-31 18:53         ` Doug Evans
2012-06-01 19:38         ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-04  4:06           ` Doug Evans
2012-06-04 15:03             ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2012-06-19  0:58               ` Doug Evans
2012-07-19  9:18                 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-30 17:29                   ` dje
2012-07-31  7:19                     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-01  5:18                       ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-01 19:30                         ` dje
2012-05-25 10:04     ` Matt Rice

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