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From: tiemann@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: Gdb reading of symbols
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Date: 18 Apr 89 03:18:35 GMT
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I think a better way is to make GDB read symbols in in the background.
When the user strikes a key, gdb suspends what it was doing, services
the request, and continues.  I usually need a only very small amount
of context to find my bugs, so lazy reading is a win.  But it would be
nice if, when I am doing nothing but staring at code, gdb could be
anticipating my moves.  I think that stabs have features which make
them more attractive than symbol-table information conveyed by -gg.
Namely, it is relatively easy to extend stabs, but painful to extend
GDB's internal format.

Michael