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Re: Petr Sorfa's Dwarf 2 changes
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>, John Wolfe <jlw at caldera dot com>,Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:45:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: Petr Sorfa's Dwarf 2 changes
- References: <20021104202641.GA7194@nevyn.them.org> <525F4E67-F035-11D6-9C11-000393575BCC@dberlin.org>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:38:05PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >Not only will they agree, I believe Petr and John had already finished
> >doing this.
>
> >
> And I did it before them.
Yes, sorry. I still have code from you, posted to gdb-patches in July
2001, which does this. I merged it most of the way forward to CVS a
couple of months later and ran out of time to finish the job.
> > Doubtless there's still some room for improvement, but the
> >functionality is there... John, do you have that merged dwarf2read
> >available?
> If they don't, you should be able to find mine in the archives.
> Unless i'm misremembering Petr's, it keeps all the CU's around all the
> time.
> One thing I did was to make it so you could throw away CU's at will,
> and it would just reread them if/when necessary (IE it would just keep
> the last 10 used CU's or something as a cache). Cuts down on memory
> usage significantly with almost no loss in speed.
Exactly what I was trying to remember :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer