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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
Cc: Lee <backrev@yahoo.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: preserving gdb symbols
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060914182547.GA25143@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F4DF2E21F33DD46BE7B8CDEEB0E16D307EABB@ussunex01.palmsource.com>

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:14:57AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Actually, I have a vague nagging memory to the effect that
> it used to be possible to do that.  We've been thru a number
> of cycles of "what can we do about the long time it takes 
> to read in symbols?"  Seems like one attempt was to read them
> in once and then save them, so you could get them more-or-less
> instantly on subsequent sessions.

Yes - this was what mmalloc was for.  But, the code hadn't worked in
quite a while, and has been deleted from recent versions.  I think
it still needed the actual files, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14 15:04 AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints Giles Hall
2006-09-14 15:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-14 17:49   ` preserving gdb symbols Lee
2006-09-14 17:53     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-14 18:24       ` Michael Snyder
2006-09-14 18:25         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-09-14 18:06     ` Michael Snyder
2006-09-15 19:56   ` AMD64 Hardware Watchpoints Giles Hall
2006-09-15 20:00 preserving gdb symbols Steve Eaton

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