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From: bothner@decwrl.dec.com (Per Bothner)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: Re: Gdb reading of symbols
Message-ID: <1354@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 20 Apr 89 23:17:05 GMT
References: <8904172206.AA19123@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <8904180616.AA13236@gilroy.pa.dec.com> <4322@omepd.UUCP>
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>In article <8904180616.AA13236@gilroy.pa.dec.com> bothner@WSL.DEC.COM writes:
>I have ported gdb to a very different platform ... In spite of this,
>I thought the slow-ness of next was because it was broken.

Sorry for muddying my message with irrelevant points.
I'm currently running under VAX Ultrix, not the "different platform".

In article <4322@omepd.UUCP> chrisb@mipon2.UUCP (Chris Benenati) writes:
>Are you sure its the symbol reading that's taking the time?

Note I said the slowness is when stepping over a procedure.
Normal "in-line" nexts are fast.
Reading the symbol-table is definitely the culprit.




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