From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10364 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2007 01:42:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 10356 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Jul 2007 01:42:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:42:03 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332C4982B8; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:42:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16EE98299; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:42:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I5Auw-0002DB-JP; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:41:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Arne Steinarson Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Performance, stepping into source for shared libs Message-ID: <20070702014130.GA8353@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Arne Steinarson , gdb@sourceware.org References: <168749.90326.qm@web25413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <168749.90326.qm@web25413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Arne Steinarson wrote: > Is there some way to reduce these waits? > > What is GDB up to during this time (it doesn't give > any feedback)? It's hard to say. It could be any of several things. My first guess is that it is stepping its way through the dynamic symbol lookup process; under some conditions it can use a breakpoint instead, under others it can not. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery