Massive slowdown printing values in gdb-7.1

[Joel Brobecker]

> I have been testing gdb 7.1 lately and have noticed that under some
> circumstances (which I have been unable to reproduce with a simple
> program), it is taking extremely long (~ 30 seconds) to print a simple
> expreession such as

I don't know if this might help, but have you tried gdb-7.2 and
the CVS HEAD? gdb-7.2 and a daily snapshot of the development branch
are both available at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/.

-- 
Joel