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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fewer calls to "open" when stepping
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:58:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fewer calls to "open" when stepping
- References: <20190726133422.5896-1-tromey@adacore.com>
On 7/26/19 2:34 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> A user noticed that gdb calls open very many times while stepping.
>
> This series improves gdb's behavior by changing the source cache to
> also cache un-highlighted text, and to track the "line_charpos" data
> that is currently put into the symtab. It also includes a patch to
> fix an apparently longstanding logic bug in the source file error
> reporting.
>
> Tested on x86-64 Fedora 29.
Coming late to the party, but, nice, pretty cool.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves