From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/28] Search symbols via quick API
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:06:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfg0c55c.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f68701da-2a73-47e9-afe1-535b9512e345@redhat.com> (Guinevere Larsen's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:07:34 -0300")
>>>>> "Guinevere" == Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> writes:
Guinevere> I am having an issue with the quick_fns interface, and while it isn't
Guinevere> affected by this series directly (as I originally thought it could
Guinevere> be), I would appreciate if you could share your expertise on this
Guinevere> area. The TL;DR of the issue is: the quick API seems to be caching
Guinevere> something and searching objfile B for a symbol can return a symbol
Guinevere> with details from objfile A (that was loaded first). I tried looking
Guinevere> around for where the cache could be hidden, but couldn't find it. Do
Guinevere> you know if where the cache is, if it really exists?
Look for symbol_cache in symtab.c.
Also there's a separate cache in ada-lang.c, but this one only affects
Ada.
It's been a while since I looked to see if either of these are really
helpful.
There are also some debug settings for symbol lookup, look in symtab.c
and symfile-debug.c.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-28 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-02 23:44 Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] Add another minor hack to cooked_index_entry::full_name Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] Change ada_decode to preserve upper-case in some situations Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] Emit some type declarations in .gdb_index Tom Tromey
2025-04-21 2:50 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-21 14:50 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 4:11 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-23 20:54 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] Ada import functions not in index Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] Fix index's handling of DW_TAG_imported_declaration Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] Put all CTF symbols in global scope Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] Restore "ingestion" of .debug_str when writing .debug_names Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] Entries from anon-struct.exp not in cooked index Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] Remove dwarf2_per_cu_data::mark Tom Tromey
2025-04-21 3:09 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-21 15:38 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 4:12 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] Have expand_symtabs_matching work for already-expanded CUs Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 15:53 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-23 20:39 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 20:57 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] Rewrite the .gdb_index reader Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 17:22 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-23 20:50 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-24 14:37 ` Pedro Alves
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] Convert default_collect_symbol_completion_matches_break_on Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] Convert gdbpy_lookup_static_symbols Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] Convert ada_add_global_exceptions Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] Convert ada_language_defn::collect_symbol_completion_matches Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] Convert ada-lang.c:map_matching_symbols Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] Remove expand_symtabs_matching Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] Simplify basic_lookup_transparent_type Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] Remove objfile::expand_symtabs_for_function Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] Convert linespec.c:iterate_over_all_matching_symtabs Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] Simplify block_lookup_symbol_primary Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] Pass lookup_name_info to block_lookup_symbol_primary Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] Simplify block_lookup_symbol Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] Add best_symbol_tracker Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] Convert lookup_symbol_via_quick_fns Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] Convert lookup_symbol_in_objfile Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] Make dw_expand_symtabs_matching_file_matcher static Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 20:00 ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-23 20:09 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 20:44 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-02 23:45 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] Remove enter_symbol_lookup Tom Tromey
2025-04-23 20:09 ` [PATCH v2 00/28] Search symbols via quick API Simon Marchi
2025-04-24 21:09 ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-28 14:07 ` Guinevere Larsen
2025-04-28 22:06 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-04-29 19:31 ` Guinevere Larsen
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