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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:46:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New warning in GDB 7.5
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To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:49:21 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > > Are these really doing anything?
> > 
> > Yes.  They force GDB to read the symbol table of a couple of object
> > files, so the symbols from those files are known to GDB.  That is
> > needed for several commands in the file to work right from the start
> > of the debugging session.
> 
> Sounds like a workaround for a bug in GDB to me.

I always thought lazy loading of symbols was a feature, not a bug.