[0/4] RFC: refactor partial symbol tables

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

Tom> For the past few months I have been working on a project to speed up
Tom> gdb startup.  In particular, I've been looking at way to speed up symbol
Tom> table reading.

Tom> This patch series is the first result of that work.  It changes gdb so
Tom> that partial symbols and partial symbol tables are hidden from the core
Tom> of gdb.  After this series, a given symbol reader can decide for itself
Tom> whether to use psymtabs or some other approach.

I've rebased this on top of Keith's patches, and made the requested
changes, which AFAIK were just for a change to gdbint.texinfo.

I'll be sending the new patches shortly.

Tom> This series was built and regtested on x86-64 (compile farm).  I did not
Tom> individually check each patch, though I think they are independent.

I retested the rebased patches.

Tom