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Re: [RFA 2/4] dwarf2_physname
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
Tom> I am not concerned about this. I don't think -readnow is actually used
Tom> -- I can't imagine why anyone would want to use it. And, on a big
Tom> program, an unrestricted "info func" or "info type" is probably just a
Tom> mistake, like hitting enter too soon.
Daniel> [...] Also, does print
Daniel> <tab> read all symtabs?
It doesn't. Keith's patch didn't touch the completion code. This code
walks expanded symtabs, and then psymtabs -- it doesn't do any
expanding. See symtab.c:default_make_symbol_completion_list.
Daniel> I'm not happy with introducing this slowdown. I'd like to at least
Daniel> see a profile first - of some smaller example! But I guess you're
Daniel> right that -readnow is not useful; maybe I should just let go...
:-)
My guess is that -readnow is left over from when GDB used mmalloc and
could dump symtabs. That's just a guess, though.
I do agree that looking at a smaller example would be interesting,
because it would isolate the swap effect.
Tom