Performance, stepping into source for shared libs

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Arne Steinarson wrote:
> Is there some way to reduce these waits?
> 
> What is GDB up to during this time (it doesn't give
> any feedback)?

It's hard to say.  It could be any of several things.  My first guess
is that it is stepping its way through the dynamic symbol lookup
process; under some conditions it can use a breakpoint instead, under
others it can not.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery