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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 7e25a19..67bcf52 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-09-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> + + * gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document "maint set dwarf2 + max-cache-age" and "maint show dwarf2 max-cache-age". + 2004-09-16 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * gdb.texinfo (Set Breaks): Add index entry for setting diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index cd859e9..d2174ec 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -19551,6 +19551,19 @@ data in a @file{gmon.out} file, be sure to move it to a safe location. Configuring with @samp{--enable-profiling} arranges for @value{GDBN} to be compiled with the @samp{-pg} compiler option. +@kindex maint set dwarf2 max-cache-age +@kindex maint show dwarf2 max-cache-age +@item maint set dwarf2 max-cache-age +@itemx maint show dwarf2 max-cache-age +Control the DWARF 2 compilation unit cache. + +In object files with inter-compilation-unit references, such as those +produced by the GCC option @samp{-feliminate-dwarf2-dups}, the DWARF 2 +reader needs to frequently refer to previously read compilation units. +This setting controls how long a compilation unit will remain in the cache +if it is not referenced. Setting it to zero disables caching, which will +slow down @value{GDBN} startup but reduce memory consumption. + @end table |