From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26226 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2003 16:29:27 -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 26217 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2003 16:29:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2003 16:29:27 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DF62B88; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F43A1E0.4070609@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 20% space savings! References: <200308191814.h7JIETLn022619@duracef.shout.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 > 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? This will definitly help short term. Long term, to abuse an ad, "While amazing, it's not sensational[sp?]". As David and Elena work through an overhaul of the symbol table and a better understanding of what it really needs to do is gained, a more radical approach can be taken. Andrew