From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: A gdb+bfd string pool?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FA29BDF.1000100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031031155102.GA1102@nevyn.them.org>
>> The interface or the implementation? The bcache interface is focused
>> and simple (something that can't be said for that hash table). The
>> hashtab could certainly be used in the implementation (as elf-strtab did).
>
>
> So does gdb/symtab.c.
>
>
>> Anyway, back to the question. Does a [global] common pool make sense
>> for BFD?
>
>
> Oh, you meant an _instance_, not a data structure. Sorry.
More specifically, a single instance. Instead of having something like
a per-object file symbol bcache as was done with GDB, there would just
be a single global bcache (and it would never shrink).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-31 15:15 Andrew Cagney
2003-10-31 15:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-31 15:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-31 15:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-31 17:29 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-10-31 17:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-10-31 17:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-03 17:25 ` David Carlton
2003-11-04 8:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2003-11-04 16:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-04 23:51 ` Andrew Cagney
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