From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871u3t80f7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22RujxxHmieAMk6QeAH9DFQYa98gWAR+qPvWvKgMpuWsRg@mail.gmail.com> (Doug Evans's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:31:22 -0700")
>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
Doug> What I mean is we need a way to stop
Doug> gdb from auto-loading symbols and then a command to load the symbols
Doug> at a later point.
Red Hat has a "-readnever" patch that we've shipped for a long time.
I think what's missing is a way to request that gdb start reading
symbols again. Anyway we could upstream the patch if it sounds useful.
Doug> [One could do something to defer setting the initial language, but
Doug> that's just one reason why gdb might want to load symbols
Doug> immediately.]
FWIW I've implemented this idea at least once, maybe a couple of times.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-10 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-26 1:29 [RFC] " Doug Evans
2013-09-26 1:54 ` Doug Evans
2013-09-26 8:28 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-26 8:47 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-09-27 19:37 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-08 18:23 ` [patch] OBJF_NOT_FILENAME [Re: [RFC] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path] Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-08 20:18 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 13:23 ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 14:46 ` [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 16:37 ` Doug Evans
2013-10-10 4:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-10-10 16:31 ` Doug Evans
2013-10-10 16:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-10 18:07 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-10-10 18:55 ` Doug Evans
2013-12-02 21:26 ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
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