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Re: [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:55:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
>
> Doug> What I mean is we need a way to stop
> Doug> gdb from auto-loading symbols and then a command to load the symbols
> Doug> at a later point.
>
> Red Hat has a "-readnever" patch that we've shipped for a long time.
> I think what's missing is a way to request that gdb start reading
> symbols again. Anyway we could upstream the patch if it sounds useful.
Yeah. It's the missing part that's, umm, missing. :-)
With that, -readnever is misnamed, maybe upstream it as "-readlater"? :-)