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Re: preserving gdb symbols

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:14:57AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Actually, I have a vague nagging memory to the effect that
> it used to be possible to do that.  We've been thru a number
> of cycles of "what can we do about the long time it takes 
> to read in symbols?"  Seems like one attempt was to read them
> in once and then save them, so you could get them more-or-less
> instantly on subsequent sessions.

Yes - this was what mmalloc was for.  But, the code hadn't worked in
quite a while, and has been deleted from recent versions.  I think
it still needed the actual files, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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