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Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] add short-circuit logic to elfread.c
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:44:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] add short-circuit logic to elfread.c
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
>
> Doug> Tom Tromey writes:
>>> After looking at a few fixes for this minor problem, I decided to just
>>> remove minimal symbols from OBJSTATS. This seemed best to me first
>>> because it eliminates duplicate accounting, and second because the
>>> OBJSTATS were historically wrong here -- including minsyms that were
>>> deleted by de-duplication.
>
> Doug> Is there a way to get this statistic via other means?
>
> Nope. I can add it back somehow if you need it. Though at the same
> time I would like to know what you use it for. I never figured out how
> the current statistic could be useful.
I don't "need" it, it's just good data and was curious.