From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, Kimball Thurston <kimball@sgrail.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb and dlopen
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:57:00 -0000
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> On Oct 17,  1:19am, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> 
>> Amusingly, there are something like eight million calls to
>> ptid_get_pid.  I'll send along a trivial patch to shrink the worst
>> offenders.  I understand the opacity that functions over macros is
>> going for here, but a function that does 'return a.b;' and gets called
>> eight MILLION times is a little bit absurd, don't you think?  Absurd
>> enough that it shows up as the second highest item on the profile.
> 
> 
> It's a shame that we can't use inline functions...

Remember, ptid_get_pid() is the messenger.  The real problem is 
elsewhere.  A bit like STREQ() in the symtab code.

enjoy,
Andrew