From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15367 invoked by alias); 9 May 2012 20:08:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 15283 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2012 20:08:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BJ,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 May 2012 20:08:04 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q49K7pGe027965 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 9 May 2012 16:07:51 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q49K7okF013951 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 9 May 2012 16:07:51 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first. References: <1336430581-11262-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <874nrqvbeh.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20120509190529.GI15555@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 20:08:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120509190529.GI15555@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 9 May 2012 12:05:29 -0700") Message-ID: <87ipg5rucp.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00312.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> I think I see why I got tricked: Is it because the debug info is DWARF? Joel> With DWARF, the lookup_static_symbol_aux first pre-expands all partial Joel> symbols containing a match, so we never go into the quick method... Not DWARF, but it depends on whether you are using psymtabs or the .gdb_index. There are two methods in quick_symbol_functions that can be supplied by a symbol reader: pre_expand_symtabs_matching and lookup_symbol. Psymtabs supplies the latter, the index code supplies the former. Tom