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Tom Tromey 697bba1827 Attribute method inlining
This inlines a couple of methods on struct attribute, improving the
performance of DWARF partial symbol reading.  These methods were
discovered as hot spots using callgrind.

For this patch, and for all the patches in this series, I tested gdb's
performance on three programs:

1. gdb itself -- I built gdb and copied it to /tmp, ensuring that the
   same version was used in all tests.

2. The system libxul.so, the main library of Firefox.  I installed the
   separate debuginfo and ensured that gdb read it.

3. A large-ish Ada program that I happen to have.

I ran gdb 10 times like:

	  /bin/time -f %e \
		    ./gdb/gdb --data-directory ./gdb/data-directory -nx \
		    -iex 'set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug' \
		    -batch $X

... where $X was the test executable.  Then I computed the mean time.
This was all done with a standard (-g -O2) build of gdb.

The baseline times were

gdb    1.90
libxul 2.12
Ada    2.61

This patch brings the numbers down to

gdb    1.88
libxul 2.11
Ada    2.60

Not a huge change, but still visible in the results.

gdb/ChangeLog
2020-05-27  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>

	* dwarf2/attribute.h (struct attribute) <form_is_ref>: Inline.
	<get_ref_die_offset>: Inline.
	<get_ref_die_offset_complaint>: New method.
	* dwarf2/attribute.c (attribute::form_is_ref): Move to header.
	(attribute::get_ref_die_offset_complaint): Rename from
	get_ref_die_offset.  Just issue complaint.
2020-05-27 11:48:18 -06:00
bfd ld: Add --warn-textrel and obsolete --warn-shared-textrel 2020-05-27 04:54:10 -07:00
binutils ar many_files test 2020-05-23 14:56:07 +09:30
config Sync config with GCC 2020-05-16 06:07:12 -07:00
contrib contrib: Update dg-extract-results.* from gcc 2020-05-15 11:41:22 +01:00
cpu Replace "if (x) free (x)" with "free (x)", opcodes 2020-05-21 10:45:33 +09:30
elfcpp Add markers for 2.34 branch to the NEWS files and ChangeLogs. 2020-01-18 13:50:25 +00:00
etc texi2pod.pl: import support for @t{...} from gcc 2020-01-15 12:58:09 -05:00
gas gas: Adjust x86 tests for PECOFF 2020-05-26 14:18:08 -07:00
gdb Attribute method inlining 2020-05-27 11:48:18 -06:00
gdbserver Don't close process handle provided by WaitForDebugEvent 2020-05-27 19:20:01 +02:00
gdbsupport gdbsupport: Drop now unused function 'stringify_argv' 2020-05-25 11:40:35 -04:00
gnulib gdb: update gnulib import 2020-02-22 20:37:18 -05:00
gold PowerPC: downgrade FP mismatch error for shared libraries to a warning 2020-05-22 13:32:51 +09:30
gprof Replace "if (x) free (x)" with "free (x)", gprof 2020-05-21 10:45:33 +09:30
include ld: Add --warn-textrel and obsolete --warn-shared-textrel 2020-05-27 04:54:10 -07:00
intl Regen with blessed automake-1.15.1 2020-02-20 13:02:24 +10:30
ld [PATCH] allow empty string as argument to -Map 2020-05-27 17:49:17 +01:00
libctf libctf: Mark bswap_identity_64 inline function as static. 2020-03-11 17:48:49 +10:30
libdecnumber Merge config/ changes from GCC. 2018-10-31 17:16:41 +00:00
libiberty Sync config and libiberty with GCC 2020-05-12 18:37:03 -07:00
opcodes Fix extraction of signed constants in nios2 disassembler (again). 2020-05-26 23:23:03 -07:00
readline Fix compilation of Readline on mingw.org's MinGW 2019-12-23 16:28:32 +02:00
sim sim: ppc: netbsd: Sync signal names with NetBSD 9.99.49 2020-03-12 16:07:37 +01:00
texinfo
zlib Merge changes from GCC for the config/ directory 2020-02-19 17:51:24 +00:00
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.gitattributes Add a .gitattributes file for use with git-merge-changelog 2014-07-25 18:07:23 -04:00
.gitignore Add profiling outputs to .gitignore 2019-12-26 06:54:58 +01:00
ar-lib Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1 2018-06-19 16:55:06 -04:00
ChangeLog Since the pdp11-aout target does not support gdb, gdbserver or gprof these should be excluded in configure. 2020-04-21 10:27:50 +01:00
compile Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00
config-ml.in Update top level configure files by synchronizing them with gcc. 2018-01-10 15:29:21 +00:00
config.guess Update top level config files with copies from the official repository. 2020-01-18 13:43:19 +00:00
config.rpath
config.sub Update top level config files with copies from the official repository. 2020-01-18 13:43:19 +00:00
configure Since the pdp11-aout target does not support gdb, gdbserver or gprof these should be excluded in configure. 2020-04-21 10:27:50 +01:00
configure.ac Since the pdp11-aout target does not support gdb, gdbserver or gprof these should be excluded in configure. 2020-04-21 10:27:50 +01:00
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COPYING.LIB
COPYING.LIBGLOSS Update the address of the FSF in the copyright notice of files which were using the old address. 2017-12-14 12:48:55 +00:00
COPYING.NEWLIB
depcomp Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00
djunpack.bat
install-sh Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00
libtool.m4 Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1 2018-06-19 16:55:06 -04:00
lt~obsolete.m4
ltgcc.m4
ltmain.sh
ltoptions.m4
ltsugar.m4
ltversion.m4
MAINTAINERS Move gdbserver to top level 2020-02-07 08:42:25 -07:00
Makefile.def Change gdbserver to use existing gdbsupport 2020-03-12 13:32:16 -06:00
Makefile.in Change gdbserver to use existing gdbsupport 2020-03-12 13:32:16 -06:00
Makefile.tpl Revert "Sync top level files with versions from gcc." 2019-05-30 11:17:19 +01:00
makefile.vms
missing Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00
mkdep
mkinstalldirs Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00
move-if-change Update `move-if-change' from gnulib 2014-11-16 17:04:02 +01:00
multilib.am Merge autoconf / automake update changes from GCC. 2018-10-31 17:10:56 +00:00
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README-maintainer-mode Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1 2018-06-19 16:55:06 -04:00
setup.com
src-release.sh Move gdbserver to top level 2020-02-07 08:42:25 -07:00
symlink-tree
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ylwrap Update from upstream Automake 2014-11-16 13:43:48 +01:00

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