[patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 15:07:00 GMT 2004
>> testcase /house/chastain/gdb/s1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 183 seconds
>> testcase src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 4 seconds
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> Figures prove: Linux dumps core faster! :)
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> Part of the difference is that I'm using an NFS file system.
Nope. I'm using NFS on a weasly little 450mhz P2.
> But a lot of it may be sparse file support in Linux.
Yep. While sparse file support is a standard part of UFS, it appears
that only the Linux Kernel thought to exploit it when writing the core file!
> I can't comment on the program itself right now, maybe later.
Hmm, can you think of an efficient way of soaking up most of the stack
...? :-) On GNU/Linux, alloca() proved to be useless :-(
Andrew
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