Re: [GDB 7.6/GCC 4.8.0] Slowdown in GDB macro processing for cores?

[Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>]

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 19:44 -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 14:12 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > And the top 10 users in the slow instance:
> >
> > Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
> >   %   cumulative   self               self     total
> >  time   seconds   seconds    calls   ms/call  ms/call  name
> >  23.99     14.26    14.26 69374700      0.00     0.00  lookup_partial_symbol
> >  23.77     28.39    14.13 784950557     0.00     0.00  strcmp_iw
> >  11.74     35.37     6.98 763482775     0.00     0.00  symbol_get_demangled_name
> >   7.23     39.67     4.30 819480663     0.00     0.00  symbol_natural_name
> >   7.22     43.96     4.29   373483      0.01     0.01  lookup_symbol_aux_psymtabs
> >   5.60     47.29     3.33 777569558     0.00     0.00  symbol_matches_domain
> >   4.98     50.25     2.96 819477261     0.00     0.00  symbol_search_name
> >   2.46     51.71     1.46 34366788      0.00     0.00  strcmp_iw_ordered
> >   1.51     52.61     0.90        4    225.00   225.00  fprintf_symbol_filtered
> >   1.46     53.48     0.87 15316453      0.00     0.00  xstrdup
> 
> Looks rather familiar.  :-)

Hi Doug; I'm not sure what that means; is there already a bug filed
about this?  Is it a known issue?

I tested with the latest code on master in the Git repo earlier today
and saw the same slow behavior, so it's not been fixed since 7.6 was
released.

Cheers!