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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2018-08-07 18:15:28 -0400
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2018-08-07 18:15:28 -0400
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Add doc and news for DWARF index cache
New in v3: - Address Eli's comments. This patch adds doc and news for the feature introduced by the previous patch. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Mention the index cache. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Index Files Speed Up GDB): Add section about symbol index cache.
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can be passed using the '[ADDRESS]:PORT' notation, or the regular
'ADDRESS:PORT' method.
+* DWARF index cache: GDB can now automatically save indices of DWARF
+ symbols on disk to speed up further loading of the same binaries.
+
* New commands
frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT | level LEVEL...] [FLAG]... COMMAND