Hangs in GDB auto-complete

["Kristoffer Sjöö" <krsj@nada.kth.se>]

Hi.
After I upgraded my Ubuntu system to Lucid Lynx (10.04), I started to 
notice extremely slow responses from GDB when using auto-complete - from 
a few seconds to several minutes (at which point I usually kill GDB out 
of impatience).

Scanning the Web and the mailing list archives as well as the bug 
tracker I couldn't find anything related and so I'm assuming it's not a 
widespread problem and likely something weird that's arisen in my 
system. Thus I didn't want to file a bug report, but thought I'd ask 
here instead.

It's very irritating, especially when I end up having to kill GDB. It 
mostly occurs when I try to auto-complete using Tab, especially when 
I've misspelled the initial part and there's no match. But it also 
occurs sometimes when I type things like "break 422" while stepping 
through a file.
I've no notion of the inner workings of GDB and no idea what this is all 
due to, but perhaps someone here has some clue? It's really hampering my 
work sometimes and I never saw it prior to my upgrade to 10.04.

Kristoffer