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Re: [RFC] Make target_read_string faster over high-latency links.
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:36:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make target_read_string faster over high-latency links.
- References: <20110715180748.A0390190BC2@elbrus2.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:07:48 +0200, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> This is GDB walking through the shared library list, and reading shared
> library names from gdbserver via target_read_string 4 bytes at a time ;-(
Just that you do not mention supporting qXfer:libraries:read also on GNU/Linux
platforms (currently used only on MS-Windows), that is to move solib-svr4.c to
gdb/common/ etc.
It is sure a larger change but it could bring even a better performance.
Thanks,
Jan