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List:       gdb
Subject:    Re: A lean/small GDB ?
From:       Vladimir Prus <ghost () cs ! msu ! su>
Date:       2005-11-22 13:22:44
Message-ID: dlv634$pr7$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Donny Kurniawan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I think I need to re-think my approach to my scalability problem (i.e.
> debugging 1000 processes).... by solving it from a different angle.
> 
> I am thinking to reduce GDB (either through configure or removing some
> code, e.g. readline) so that it can be as lean/small as possible while
> retaining essential debug functionalities. Hopefully, the small size can
> help in the scalability.
> 
> I am thinking to remove the UI and make GDB like "libGDB" by putting
> API-like interface.

Isn't most of memory consumption of gdb due to large amount of debug info
that gcc helpfully puts into binaries? I doubt the problem is in code size
of gdb itself.

- Volodya

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