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Re: [RFA/commit/dwarf] Create partial symbols for nested subprograms


> Essentially, the drawback of this approach is that, before writing
> code that uses psymbols, you must decide whether they should be loaded
> or not.

I quickly looked at the patch, and it doesn't seem as bad as it sounds.
I just joined the archer list, so we can discuss the details there
when you have found what the issue is with number of symtabs, but
the one thing that I am wondering is how users will respond to an
unexpectedly long delay when entering a command that is usually fast
and yet takes a noticeably long time that one time. For intance, imagine
the following scenario:
  
  % gdb my_300MB_exe
  (gdb) break main
  [12 secs later...]
  Breakpoint 1, ...

-- 
Joel


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