From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11637 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2010 23:31:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 11629 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Sep 2010 23:31:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:31:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5BD2BABFC; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UeC+PaYncDpu; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E22B2BABB7; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7531F599F; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:31:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:31:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Srinath Avadhanula Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Massive slowdown printing values in gdb-7.1 Message-ID: <20100906233108.GB21706@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-09/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 > I have been testing gdb 7.1 lately and have noticed that under some > circumstances (which I have been unable to reproduce with a simple > program), it is taking extremely long (~ 30 seconds) to print a simple > expreession such as I don't know if this might help, but have you tried gdb-7.2 and the CVS HEAD? gdb-7.2 and a daily snapshot of the development branch are both available at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/. -- Joel