Is gdb 4.7 slow for everybody?

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From: Douglas Scott
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:53

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I tried posting this to gnu.g++.bugs, but I guess the moderator did not see fit to pass it  
through:

I am running gdb 4.7 on a Sun 4/330, compiled via gcc 2.2.2 with -O2 and -g specified.   
I am using it to debug c++ programs compiled with gcc/g++ 2.2.2 with the -g option.

This new version is driving me crazy!  I timed it today, and to do a step, stepi, or next  
command takes 22 seconds!  Are other people finding this to be the case as well, or is  
something wrong?

Also, gdb 4.7 dumps core when I ask it to print the return value of many of my  
member functions.  I have not yet been able to duplicate this in a small bit of code (my  
program is > 10,000 lines).

I am most concerned about how slow it is--I cannot afford to wait 20 minutes to step  
through a single subroutine!!

Any tips, advice, ideas, would be very welcome.

Thanks.

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Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>

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