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Article #760Gdb reading of symbols
From: Michael Tiemann
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 03:18
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 03:18
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I think a better way is to make GDB read symbols in in the background. When the user strikes a key, gdb suspends what it was doing, services the request, and continues. I usually need a only very small amount of context to find my bugs, so lazy reading is a win. But it would be nice if, when I am doing nothing but staring at code, gdb could be anticipating my moves. I think that stabs have features which make them more attractive than symbol-table information conveyed by -gg. Namely, it is relatively easy to extend stabs, but painful to extend GDB's internal format. Michael
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!YAHI.STANFORD.EDU!tiemann From: tiemann@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: Gdb reading of symbols Message-ID: <8904180318.AA07777@yahi.stanford.edu> Date: 18 Apr 89 03:18:35 GMT References: <8904172200.AA23780@gilroy.pa.dec.com> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: tiemann@lurch.stanford.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 11