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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:37:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,        gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv2] Record objfile->original_name as an absolute path
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:31:22 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> I'm trying to think of a use-case beyond the testsuite to better
> justify having such a feature.

When you do not use .gdb_index loading the symbols can be very slow.

For example if you just want to gcore a process to a file (/usr/bin/gcore) you
need no symbols for it.


Jan