Re: [RFC] Faster linking (-gsplit-dwarf, gold)

On Wednesday 27 of June 2018, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Tangential question: anybody aware of something to prevent gdb from
> trying to load _all_ symbols? The VS debugger is much more frugal
> there initially.

 set auto-solib-add off
 share <librarymask>

 See 
http://kdemonkey.blogspot.com/2007/12/memory-efficient-kde-4-debugging.html .

 Thinking of that, it probably wouldn't be too hard to make gdb autoload 
debugging info on-demand, e.g. for 'bt'. It might be worth trying.
 

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