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Re: [0/4] RFC: refactor partial symbol tables
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: [0/4] RFC: refactor partial symbol tables
- References: <m38wbyc31o.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
Tom> For the past few months I have been working on a project to speed up
Tom> gdb startup. In particular, I've been looking at way to speed up symbol
Tom> table reading.
Tom> This patch series is the first result of that work. It changes gdb so
Tom> that partial symbols and partial symbol tables are hidden from the core
Tom> of gdb. After this series, a given symbol reader can decide for itself
Tom> whether to use psymtabs or some other approach.
I've rebased this on top of Keith's patches, and made the requested
changes, which AFAIK were just for a change to gdbint.texinfo.
I'll be sending the new patches shortly.
Tom> This series was built and regtested on x86-64 (compile farm). I did not
Tom> individually check each patch, though I think they are independent.
I retested the rebased patches.
Tom