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A gdb+bfd string pool?

Joel Brobecker brobecker@gnat.com
Tue Nov 4 08:16:00 GMT 2003 
> Personally, I'd be against this unless we have reason to believe that
> it's an important optimization.  I don't like global data in general,
> even if it's only global to one component of a program, and having
> that data shared by both GDB and BFD makes me even more nervous.
> (Singleton is not my favorite design pattern.)  So it sets of warning
> bells for general design reasons; our lack of const-correctness when
> dealing with names makes me even more nervous.

I have the exact same feeling.

May I recommend that, should we decide to use one, we isolate it from
GDB's code via a layer. So each module would use it's layer as if it was
not shared. It will make the move back easier, in case it's ever needed.

-- 
Joel
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