Commit: Option to disable the use of debuginfod

Luis Machado luis.machado@arm.com
Thu Mar 10 09:28:57 GMT 2022


Hi Nick,

On 3/10/22 09:11, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>    I have recently seen several bug reports about readelf and objdump
>    unexpectedly slowing down.  The problem turns out to be due to
>    attempts to access debuginfod servers which are either not there or
>    just slow to respond.  So to help alleviate this problem I am applying
>    the patch below which adds a new command line option:

If it slows things down by default, shouldn't we change the default to 
disabled (I'm assuming it is enabled by default) and/or look into 
improving the code so it doesn't slow things down?


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