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Re: RFC: lazy partial symbol table reading
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:32:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: lazy partial symbol table reading
- References: <m3y6uv6a7b.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Hey Tom,
> The basic idea is simple: don't read partial symbols until they are
> needed. When they are needed, call require_partial_symbols to read
> them.
I think I need to discuss the principle of this patch internally with
the other AdaCore GDB engineers, in particular with Paul Hilfinger.
I think that this might impact Ada, because, when we do symbol lookups,
we need to search all psymtabs. Paul knows a lot more about this than
I do, so he should be able to evaluate the real impact a little better.
I will look at it as well.
--
Joel