Debugging a large program

[Nick Savoiu]

Hi,

I'm using GDB to debug a rather large program and I'm running into memory
usage problems that slow down debugging considerably. Just invoking GDB on
the executable (without issuing 'run') results in GDB using up 450MB of
memory.

I think that this is caused by GDB reading in all the symbol info. However,
the code that I'm debugging uses but a small fraction of the code that's
present in the program. Can I somehow tell GDB to only load the symbols it
needs?

Thanks,
Nick