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Re: Performance, stepping into source for shared libs
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Arne Steinarson <asteinarson at yahoo dot se>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:41:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Performance, stepping into source for shared libs
- References: <168749.90326.qm@web25413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Arne Steinarson wrote:
> Is there some way to reduce these waits?
>
> What is GDB up to during this time (it doesn't give
> any feedback)?
It's hard to say. It could be any of several things. My first guess
is that it is stepping its way through the dynamic symbol lookup
process; under some conditions it can use a breakpoint instead, under
others it can not.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery