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Adding gdb-add-index script from Redhat's gdb rpm.

For linux users who are going to debug chromium, running gdb-add-index
on the binary first will significantly speed up debugger start time.

The originating RPM is gdb-7.4.50.20120603-1.1.x86_64.rpm. The script is
just a bash script version of the instructions in the gdb man page.

BUG=none
TEST=ran it on a statically linked browser_tests locally. verfied .gdb_index section exists
and that gdb does startup faster (from ~20 secs to ~3 seconds)

Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10695024

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@144644 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
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ajwong@chromium.org
2012-06-28 01:53:45 +00:00
parent 21cd39b17c
commit fdb9eccabc

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build/gdb-add-index Executable file

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#! /bin/sh
# Add a .gdb_index section to a file.
# Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
file="$1"
dir="${file%/*}"
# We don't care if gdb gives an error.
gdb -nx --batch-silent -ex "file $file" -ex "save gdb-index $dir"
if test -f "${file}.gdb-index"; then
objcopy --add-section .gdb_index="${file}.gdb-index" --set-section-flags .gdb_index=readonly "$file" "$file"
rm -f "${file}.gdb-index"
fi
exit 0