From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14757 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2008 16:52:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 14748 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Mar 2008 16:52:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qnxmail.qnx.com (HELO qnxmail.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:52:23 +0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.42.96.5]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13468; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:34:28 -0500 Received: from [10.42.100.129] (dhcp-100-129 [10.42.100.129]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02769; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:52:20 -0500 Message-ID: <47D02143.4060305@qnx.com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:53:00 -0000 From: Aleksandar Ristovski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Skipping final cleanups in quit_target References: <47D0198C.9080104@qnx.com> <20080306163038.GB555@caradoc.them.org> <47D01CF3.9010800@qnx.com> <20080306163954.GA1407@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080306163954.GA1407@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2008-03/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:33:55AM -0500, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: >> I believe it is cleaning up the symbols and stuff like that (but i have to >> double check to be sure). > > If it's just freeing memory, we don't have to, but maybe we shouldn't > be registering the cleanups at all - that shouldn't take nearly so > long though. > Well it is only visible and annoying with very large symbol files, but it will, of course, depend on the host system details.