From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc: insight@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Single-executable patch
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060517190737.GB12559@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605171502.18798.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:02:18PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> It seems, all three of the gdb, gdbtui, and insight executables are the same
> except for their (tiny) main() functions.
>
> The attached sample patch allows to install just the gdb and link it to gdbtui
> and insight -- the program will behave differently depending on the name,
> under which it is invoked.
>
> This saves not only the disk space (3.2Mb per executable here on FreeBSD/amd64
> despite using shared -ltcl, -ltk, -litcl, and -litk), but the more precious
> RAM at runtime too -- when different users run different interfaces on a
> shared system, the OS will be able to efficiently share the read-only pages
> between them.
This has been a world of trouble for other programs in the past, and I
do not recommend it; we switched to the separate main programs
deliberately IIRC.
If this is all you want, here's a simple implementation:
/usr/bin/gdbtui:
#!/usr/bin/gdb -i=tui
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 2:02 Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 14:31 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 17:50 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 17:57 ` Dave Korn
[not found] ` <200605171330.50762.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:53 ` Does insight work? Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:06 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:08 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:15 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:27 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:41 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:03 ` Single-executable patch Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-05-17 19:28 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <200605171337.30938.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:55 ` Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:11 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:20 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:31 ` Mikhail Teterin
2007-06-29 0:56 ` Mikhail Teterin
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