Re: [RFA] Add global/static and symbol kind indicator to .gdb_index

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

Doug> The global/static bit massively speeds up looking up things like
Doug> "int" when debugging with lots of shared libraries (all having
Doug> .gdb_index).  PR 14125

Tom> I don't think this patch is needed to achieve this.  At least, the "int"
Tom> case and other similar cases were fixed by:

Doug pointed out on irc that I was mistaken here.
The issue in his case is that, even though each individual index has a
single entry for "int", there are still many indices, so gdb still does
excessive CU expansion.
I'm sorry for the error.

Tom> I think it is ok.

At least this part still seems correct ;-)

Tom