Re: Two observations using GDB 13 snapshot

Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-12-19T10:47:02Z

On 12/17/22 17:42, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Using the latest snapshot of GDB 13 (MinGW build on native Windows), I
> see some strange behavior I've not seen with previous versions:
>
> . Very long time to read symbols. E.g., reading symbols of its own
> binary takes a whopping 2 minutes. GDB 12.1 does the same in
> under 10 seconds.

There used to be a dwarf performance regression, but from looking at the bug (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29105), it seems to be fixed.

I'm not sure if it manifests differently on MinGW.

>
> . The (top-gdb) prompt doesn't appear when debugging GDB with
> itself.
>
> Are these bugs or features?