question about elf_slurp_symbol_table

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Fri Mar 7 13:58:32 GMT 2025


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:

Alan> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:21:10AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> It would be better, IMO, if either these symbols were cached and then
>> just reused on subsequent calls;

Alan> Normal use case is to just call the function once, but yes, I guess
Alan> they could be cached.  COFF targets do so.

Thanks.  I ended up writing a patch to have gdb cache the results
itself.

Tom


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