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nlist using bfd
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- Subject: nlist using bfd
- From: "Philippe De Muyter" <phdm at macqel dot be>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:55:54 +0200 (CEST)
I noticed that the startup of my gdb is slow, and found out that it uses
nlist() to find the value of the `u' kernel symbol. The native `nlist'
is slow, because it does a `read' system call for each `COFF' entry.
I think we should rather use `bfd' for that purpose, but I do not want
to reinvent the wheel, so here is my question :
Can somebody point me to an already written a `nlist' replacement
using bfd, or sketch one off-hand ?
Thanks in advance
Philippe