From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7388 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2003 18:30:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7354 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 18:30:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2003 18:30:01 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19pBF3-00063q-G0 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:30:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 20% space savings! Message-ID: <20030819183001.GA23271@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200308191814.h7JIETLn022619@duracef.shout.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308191814.h7JIETLn022619@duracef.shout.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:14:29PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > I pulled a Daniel Berlin last night (in a good way) and started > packing structures like a #4 train at rush hour. > > 'maint space' has gone from: > > before: 99352576 > after: 79478784 > > It would take a lot of time to merge these patches into gdb. > I would have to write up a road map, and then test the patches > one at a time (that is the hard part, regression testing stuff > like coff), then submit the patches one at a time to the > symtab maintainers. > > Is this something worth pursuing? Yes. I think so, at least. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer