From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: Nick Savoiu <savoiu@ics.uci.edu>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Debugging a large program
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005140519.GB13586@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162A966.8050005@gnu.org>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:02:14AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> This, unfortunatly, isn't true. The "classic" user interaction:
> gdb ...
> run
> <segmentation fault>
> backtrace
> print variable
> involves very few symbols and addresses yet GDB is slurping all the
> following:
>
> - entire minsymtab - O(<nr minsyms>) at least
>
> - simplified symtab a.k.a. partial-symtab - O(<nr syms>) at least
>
> and then when the first symbol request occures:
>
> - full symtab - O(<nr syms>) at least
No, that's not right. O(<nr syms in the one relevant symtab>).
> - address information - O(<?>) (or is this done above?)
Yes, it is.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 20:48 Nick Savoiu
2004-10-04 20:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-10-05 14:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-05 14:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-10-04 21:15 Nick Savoiu
2004-10-04 21:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-10-04 23:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-10-04 23:25 ` Nick Savoiu
2004-10-05 5:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-10-05 15:26 ` Nick Savoiu
[not found] <F51E79B1-195C-11D9-ACAD-000A9569836A@gnu.org>
2004-10-08 21:35 ` Jason Molenda
2004-10-11 1:46 ` Daniel Berlin
2004-10-11 6:10 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-11 13:59 ` Andrew Cagney
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