very very slow symbol searches

[Martin M. Hunt]

> Could you give some commands to reproduce this problem?  (Preferably
> using GDB to debug itself.)  I tried running GDB on itself and then
> typing 'info functions', and I don't see any significant time
> difference on current mainline GDB versus GDB 5.2 or 5.3.  

Interesting.  Maybe the problem is limited to certain glibcs?

> ./gdb gdb
> info func main*

01Jan03 build: less than 1 second pause before output.
Current build: about 10 seconds pause

This is on a standard RH8.0 Linux system, glibc-2.2.93-5

Martin