From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19642 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2006 18:25:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 19634 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2006 18:25:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:51 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GNvuF-0006Y5-UM; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:25:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Snyder Cc: Lee , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: preserving gdb symbols Message-ID: <20060914182547.GA25143@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Snyder , Lee , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20060914151039.GA19945@nevyn.them.org> <20060914174909.56742.qmail@web55610.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <20060914175350.GA24096@nevyn.them.org> <0F4DF2E21F33DD46BE7B8CDEEB0E16D307EABB@ussunex01.palmsource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0F4DF2E21F33DD46BE7B8CDEEB0E16D307EABB@ussunex01.palmsource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 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