gdb-add-index filename
When ROCGDB finds a symbol file, it scans the symbols in the file in order to construct an internal symbol table. This lets most ROCGDB operations work quickly–at the cost of a delay early on. For large programs, this delay can be quite lengthy, so ROCGDB 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 ROCGDB 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 Speed Up ROCGDB.