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Re: very very slow symbol searches
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, kettenis at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:09:38 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: very very slow symbol searches
On 22 Jan 2003, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
> What was wrong with having GDB on all platforms using the standard
> libiberty regex?
Perhaps on some platforms, the system regex is better.
But whatever the reasons, having an option to use the system regex is a
Good Thing, IMHO. Maybe we just should not make this the default, or
have specialized tests for certain versions of glibc.