RE: gcc 3.2, gdb 5.2.1, solaris2.8 sparc, slow

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Garriss, Michael writes:
 > I second that.
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Mark Crosland [mailto:mjc@attbi.com]
 > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:36 AM
 > To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
 > Subject: Re: gcc 3.2, gdb 5.2.1, solaris2.8 sparc, slow
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > OK, I will assume that no response means gdb is not suitable for medium ->
 > large multi-threaded c++ development on solaris.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Mark


Actually no.  gdb should be able to debug such applications.  Would
you have a chance to poke around gdb and see what it's doing that
takes so long?
It may be the same thing reported in this thread:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-10/msg00157.html

Maybe the thread maintainers have some additional comments.

Elena

 > 
 > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Mark Crosland wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > I noticed a recent thread regarding rather slow response from gdb. I am
 > > experiencing the same thing on solaris 2.8, sparc platform. It is an
 > > enterpirse class server, not the fastest thing sun makes, but not slow.
 > > 
 > > I built gcc 3.2
 > > ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
 > > --disable-nls --prefix=/homedir/markc/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++
 > > --enable-shared --enable-threads
 > > 
 > > and then built gdb 5.2.1
 > > mkdir build
 > > cd build
 > > /full/path/to/configure
 > > make
 > > 
 > > using gnu make 3.77
 > > 
 > > solaris 2.8 sparc
 > > 
 > > gdb responds with the most simple programs, but anything that isn't dirt
 > > simple seems to cause it to take forever to do basic commands.
 > > 
 > > I do "gdb myProgram", it starts right up, get the gdb prompt.
 > > 
 > > "info address main" never returns
 > > "break main" never returns
 > > 
 > > CPU is peaked by gdb process
 > > 
 > > If I say "run", it eventualy runs
 > > 
 > > the program that is being run in gdb runs fine outside the debugger, isn't
 > > really all that large, runs on several platforms, etc... it does load some
 > > relatively average sized shared libraries (both from the OS and using
 > > dlopen()). The program is multi-threaded.
 > > 
 > > It is a c++ and c program
 > > 
 > > The modules that contain main are compiled with -g. nm from binutils shows
 > > lots of symbols.
 > > 
 > > trying to get away from Sun compiler, but a debugger is a critical
 > > piece...
 > > 
 > > ???
 > > 
 > > Mark,
 > >