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Re: Unreliable BFD caching heuristic
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: lgustavo at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:58:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: Unreliable BFD caching heuristic
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On 11/21/2013 05:39 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
> Do you have any proposals on ways to improve this heuristic?
Compare st_ino/st_dev, and don't share if the system doesn't
provide meaningful bfd_stat data?
symfile.c:separate_debug_file_exists does this already,
and then does a CRC check if all else fails. Not sure
whether the CRC part would be a good idea here.
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Pedro Alves