Re: Debugging a large program

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>> Doing this means abandoning the psymtab and instead having symbol code 
>> directly read each symbol or address as it is needed, and with the 
>> minimum auxulary information (i.e., direct from disk).

> For what it's worth, we've been working on a less ambitious scheme
> at Apple for the past month, with similar benefits.

(dejavu, sigh)

> Andrew's approach is much cooler, but it's definitely not something
> that could be done with stabs (as it exists today), and we're stuck
> on stabs on MacOS X for a while still.
> 
> Anyway, just a point of information.  It was a HUGE win for us on
> extremely large applications where they have many large solibs and
> the developer is only debugging code in a couple of them.

The existing symfile code can be pushed down a level, hiding it behind a 
new symtab proxy.

Andrew