From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20332 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 20:16:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20325 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 20:16:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 20:16:01 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARdPi-0005p4-5l; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:15:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:16:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: ian@wasabisystems.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Slow handling of C++ symbol names Message-ID: <20031203201558.GA20696@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , ian@wasabisystems.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20031203195645.D38BA4B35C@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031203195645.D38BA4B35C@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:56:45PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote: > ilt> Everything makes sense to me and I get the results I expect. > > That's good enough for me. I don't care much about the verbosity. > My problem is: I've got 20,000 mangled names, and they demangle > to 250 megabytes of text, and I want to find real bugs like the > "operator< <" versus "operator <<" bug. > > It's a big needle-in-haystack problem. I'm messing around with > a Perl script that helps sort out the haystack. After "monotone", > I'd like to run it on mangled names from cygwin and mozilla and > open-office too. If what you're trying to do is canonicalize the names, consider the 20K or so parser I posted to the "C++ / Java regressions" thread on Monday. It has a couple of bugs left but it's pretty solid. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer