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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Demangler crash handler


Tom Tromey wrote:
> Florian> More worrisome would be the occasional demangling as part
> Florian> of other tasks, where the context switches might become
> Florian> very visible.
> 
> Gary> It probably is bulk, though I don't know for sure.  You could
> Gary> probably rearrange GDB to demangle a whole object file or CU's
> Gary> symbols at once.
> 
> It could perhaps be done but I think it would be non-trivial.
> Usually in gdb whatever is calling the demangler intends to use
> the result right away.

Yeah, it wouldn't be trivial, but it's probably doable.

Cheers,
Gary

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