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Re: [committed] Use "nm" rather than "objdump -dr" on a 1GB MIPS testcase
- From: Adam Nemet <anemet at caviumnetworks dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Cc: rdsandiford at googlemail dot com
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:00:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: [committed] Use "nm" rather than "objdump -dr" on a 1GB MIPS testcase
- References: <87iqjskyw9.fsf@talisman.home>
Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com> writes:
> Noticed while running the testsuite on an old laptop (512MB)
> that the gas testsuite was thrashing and taking a long time to run.
> It turned out that we were using "objdump -dr" on a 1GB file to
> verify symbol values.
I used to sometimes manually comment out this test if I needed to run
the tests repeatedly on older machines. Thanks for fixing this!
Adam