suggestion for dictionary representation

[Daniel Berlin]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> 
> > Also, for what it's worth, I'm still not ready to completely give up
> > on representing members of classes via a dictionary; that would
> > provide another place where a linear dictionary environment could be
> > useful.
> 
> I agree, but it's worth noting that `struct symbol' is 52 bytes long
> on a Pentium, whereas `struct field' and `struct fn_field' are 16
> bytes long.  
> 
> Not that that necessarily matters.  We know GDB does have memory
> consumption problems, but I have never seen those problems really
> analyzed. 

Um, I have these statistics, but I need to know *exactly* what you want to 
know to be able to give them to you.
There's just too many combinations to make a nice table or something.
Even something like STABS vs DWARF2 has too many combinations because 
it changes with each GCC version, and even sometimes with binutils 
versions.

> All the memory could be in physnames, for all we know. 
In general, DWARF2 C++ apps, a lot of it is.

--Dan