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Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] share minimal symbols across objfiles
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:59:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] share minimal symbols across objfiles
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
Tom> This patch series changes minimal symbols to be independent of the
Tom> program space, and then to be stored in the per-BFD object. That way,
Tom> they can be shared by all objfiles referring to a given BFD. This
Tom> saves memory, and, in the case of ELF, the time spent re-reading the
Tom> symbols.
[...]
Tom> Please note that, while I made my best effort to fix everything
Tom> properly, there's really quite a bit here I can't test. In
Tom> particular, I have no way to test most of the changes I made to the
Tom> various symbol readers, in patch #8.
Tom> If you could, I'd ask that you please test or at least carefully
Tom> review the relevant bits there. I've pushed this branch to archer.git
Tom> tromey/split-objfile/msymbol-location-independence to make this
Tom> simpler.
I've rebased this branch once again and rebuilt it. I'm re-testing it
now. I want to push it in soon, like tomorrow, so if you have been
meaning to try it and been procrastinating, now would be a great time to
send me a note.
Tom