A gdb+bfd string pool?

[Andrew Cagney]

>>> Oh, you meant an _instance_, not a data structure.  Sorry.
> 
>> 
>> More specifically, a single instance.  Instead of having something like 
>> a per-object file symbol bcache as was done with GDB, there would just 
>> be a single global bcache (and it would never shrink).
> 
> 
> elf-strtab has a property which I'm not sure you really need in GDB,
> as it slow things down.  It attempts to do suffix merging, ie. if you have
> p = "abcde" and q = "cde", r = "cde", s = "abcde" strings,
> then p = "abcde", q = p + 2, r = q, s = p.  Storing strings in a hashtable
> is certainly cheaper for CPU time than this.

As best I could tell, the suffix merging was being done as a separate 
pass so could be separated out?

Andrew