From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28560 invoked by alias); 5 Oct 2004 14:05:21 -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 28553 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2004 14:05:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Oct 2004 14:05:21 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEpwN-0003Zf-Od; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:05:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:07:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Nick Savoiu , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Debugging a large program Message-ID: <20041005140519.GB13586@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Nick Savoiu , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <043c01c4aa53$01e419b0$5a02a8c0@rio> <20041004204942.GB8508@nevyn.them.org> <4162A966.8050005@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4162A966.8050005@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00089.txt.bz2 On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:02:14AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > This, unfortunatly, isn't true. The "classic" user interaction: > gdb ... > run > > backtrace > print variable > involves very few symbols and addresses yet GDB is slurping all the > following: > > - entire minsymtab - O() at least > > - simplified symtab a.k.a. partial-symtab - O() at least > > and then when the first symbol request occures: > > - full symtab - O() at least No, that's not right. O(). > - address information - O() (or is this done above?) Yes, it is. -- Daniel Jacobowitz