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| author | Matheus Branco Borella <dark.ryu.550@gmail.com> | 2023-10-10 10:26:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> | 2023-10-10 10:26:40 +0200 |
| commit | 8b9c08eddac038663b8f5ede4b4d24e441a6d8a3 (patch) | |
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| parent | d883c61283a547788292f94633799303fd34080c (diff) | |
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[gdb/symtab] Add name_of_main and language_of_main to the DWARF index
This patch adds a new section to the DWARF index containing the name
and the language of the main function symbol, gathered from
`cooked_index::get_main`, if available. Currently, for lack of a better name,
this section is called the "shortcut table". The way this name is both saved and
applied upon an index being loaded in mirrors how it is done in
`cooked_index_functions`, more specifically, the full name of the main function
symbol is saved and `set_objfile_main_name` is used to apply it after it is
loaded.
The main use case for this patch is in improving startup times when dealing with
large binaries. Currently, when an index is used, GDB has to expand symtabs
until it finds out what the language of the main function symbol is. For some
large executables, this may take a considerable amount of time to complete,
slowing down startup. This patch bypasses that operation by having both the name
and language of the main function symbol be provided ahead of time by the index.
In my testing (a binary with about 1.8GB worth of DWARF data) this change brings
startup time down from about 34 seconds to about 1.5 seconds.
When testing the patch with target board cc-with-gdb-index, test-case
gdb.fortran/nested-funcs-2.exp starts failing, but this is due to a
pre-existing issue, filed as PR symtab/30946.
Tested on x86_64-linux, with target board unix and cc-with-gdb-index.
PR symtab/24549
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24549
Approved-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ *** Changes since GDB 14 +* GDB index now contains information about the main function. This speeds up + startup when it is being used for some large binaries. + *** Changes in GDB 14 * GDB now supports the AArch64 Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2), which |