gdb/Insight 5.3 really slow when stepping - patch submitted to gdb-patch list

[Roland Schwingel]

Hi...

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> I wonder.
> 
> For cygwin, a file can't be deleted unless it is closed.  This causes 
> problems when GDB has the executible open (for symbols) when in another 
> window the user is trying to do make.
> 
> Did GDB or Insight get modified to close the file, and if it did, could 
> that be causing the open/close?

In this case gdb did not try to open executables. It tried to open source
files (.c/.h/.m files in particular). On success it did nothing else then getinfo
and close...

Roland