This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [RFA] choose symbol from given block's objfile first.
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> I think I see why I got tricked: Is it because the debug info is DWARF?
Joel> With DWARF, the lookup_static_symbol_aux first pre-expands all partial
Joel> symbols containing a match, so we never go into the quick method...
Not DWARF, but it depends on whether you are using psymtabs or the
.gdb_index.
There are two methods in quick_symbol_functions that can be supplied by
a symbol reader: pre_expand_symtabs_matching and lookup_symbol.
Psymtabs supplies the latter, the index code supplies the former.
Tom