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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler via Gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: tom@tromey.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debuginfod-support.c: Use long-lived debuginfod_client
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 20:55:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeek1y07.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210430235735.1371915-1-amerey@redhat.com> (Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:57:35 -0400")


Hi -

> Aaron> Instead of initializing a new debuginfod_client for each query,
> Aaron> store the first initialized client for the remainder of the GDB
> Aaron> session and use it for every debuginfod query.

> Will this still work with existing versions of the library?

Yes.

> Aaron> +static debuginfod_client *global_client = nullptr;

> Will there ever be a need to finalize this object?  Like, shut it down
> cleanly in some way?

Nope (except perhaps if running gdb under valgrind?).


- FChE


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-06  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 23:57 Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches
2021-05-04 14:27 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-06  0:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-05-06 17:27   ` Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches
2021-05-06 17:39     ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-06 18:03     ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-05-06 18:47       ` Frank Ch. Eigler via Gdb-patches
2021-05-06 19:11         ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-05-06 20:35           ` Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches
2021-05-06 21:45             ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches

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