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Re: Petr Sorfa's Dwarf 2 changes


On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:38:05PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >Not only will they agree, I believe Petr and John had already finished
> >doing this.
> 
> >
> And I did it before them.

Yes, sorry.  I still have code from you, posted to gdb-patches in July
2001, which does this.  I merged it most of the way forward to CVS a
couple of months later and ran out of time to finish the job.

> > Doubtless there's still some room for improvement, but the
> >functionality is there...  John, do you have that merged dwarf2read
> >available?
> If they don't, you should be able to find mine in the archives.
> Unless i'm misremembering Petr's, it keeps all the CU's around all the 
> time.
> One thing I did was to make it so you could throw away CU's at will, 
> and it would just reread them if/when necessary (IE it would just keep 
> the last 10 used CU's or something as a cache).   Cuts down on memory 
> usage significantly with almost no loss in speed.

Exactly what I was trying to remember :)


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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