gdb-add-index man (Debugging with GDB)
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gdb-add-index
gdb-add-index filename
When GDB finds a symbol file, it scans the symbols in the file in order to construct an internal symbol table. This lets most GDB operations work quickly–at the cost of a delay early on. For large programs, this delay can be quite lengthy, so GDB provides a way to build an index, which speeds up startup.
To determine whether a file contains such an index, use the command readelf -S filename: the index is stored in a section named .gdb_index
. The index file can only be produced on systems which use ELF binaries and DWARF debug information (i.e., sections named .debug_*
).
gdb-add-index
uses GDB and objdump
found in the PATH
environment variable. If you want to use different versions of these programs, you can specify them through the GDB
and OBJDUMP
environment variables.
See more in Index Files.