1GDB-ADD-INDEX(1)             GNU Development Tools            GDB-ADD-INDEX(1)
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NAME

6       gdb-add-index - Add index files to speed up GDB
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SYNOPSIS

9       gdb-add-index filename
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DESCRIPTION

12       When GDB finds a symbol file, it scans the symbols in the file in order
13       to construct an internal symbol table.  This lets most GDB operations
14       work quickly--at the cost of a delay early on.  For large programs,
15       this delay can be quite lengthy, so GDB provides a way to build an
16       index, which speeds up startup.
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18       To determine whether a file contains such an index, use the command
19       readelf -S filename: the index is stored in a section named
20       ".gdb_index".  Note that the index is never generated for files that do
21       not contain DWARF debug information (sections named ".debug_*").
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23       See more in the GDB manual in node "Index Files" -- shell command "info
24       -f gdb -n 'Index Files'".
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OPTIONS

SEE ALSO
28       The full documentation for GDB is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
29       the "info" and "gdb" programs and GDB's Texinfo documentation are
30       properly installed at your site, the command
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32               info gdb
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34       should give you access to the complete manual.
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36       Using GDB: A Guide to the GNU Source-Level Debugger, Richard M.
37       Stallman and Roland H. Pesch, July 1991.
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40       Copyright (c) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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42       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
43       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
44       any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
45       Invariant Sections being "Free Software" and "Free Software Needs Free
46       Documentation", with the Front-Cover Texts being "A GNU Manual," and
47       with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.
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49       (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You are free to copy and modify this
50       GNU Manual.  Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in
51       developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
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