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Title "GDB-ADD-INDEX 1" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
gdb-add-index - Add index files to speed up GDB Header "SYNOPSIS" gdb-add-index filename Header "DESCRIPTION" When \s-1GDB\s0 finds a symbol file, it scans the symbols in the file in order to construct an internal symbol table. This lets most \s-1GDB\s0 operations work quickly\*(--at the cost of a delay early on. For large programs, this delay can be quite lengthy, so \s-1GDB\s0 provides a way to build an index, which speeds up startup.

To determine whether a file contains such an index, use the command \f(CW\*(C`readelf -S filename\*(C': the index is stored in a section named \f(CW\*(C`.gdb_index\*(C'. The index file can only be produced on systems which use \s-1ELF\s0 binaries and \s-1DWARF\s0 debug information (i.e., sections named \*(C`.debug_*\*(C').

\fBgdb-add-index uses \s-1GDB\s0 and objdump found in the \s-1PATH\s0 environment variable. If you want to use different versions of these programs, you can specify them through the \fB\s-1GDB\s0 and \s-1OBJDUMP\s0 environment variables.

See more in the \s-1GDB\s0 manual in node \*(C`Index Files\*(C' \*(-- shell command \*(C`info -f gdb -n "Index Files"\*(C'.

Header "OPTIONS" Header "SEE ALSO" The full documentation for \s-1GDB\s0 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the \*(C`info\*(C' and \*(C`gdb\*(C' programs and \s-1GDB\s0's Texinfo documentation are properly installed at your site, the command

.Vb 1 info gdb .Ve

should give you access to the complete manual.

\fIUsing \s-1GDB: A\s0 Guide to the \s-1GNU\s0 Source-Level Debugger, Richard M. Stallman and Roland H. Pesch, July 1991.

Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (c) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being \*(L"Free Software\*(R" and \*(L"Free Software Needs Free Documentation\*(R", with the Front-Cover Texts being \*(L"A \s-1GNU\s0 Manual,\*(R" and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.

(a) The \s-1FSF\s0's Back-Cover Text is: \*(L"You are free to copy and modify this \s-1GNU\s0 Manual. Buying copies from \s-1GNU\s0 Press supports the \s-1FSF\s0 in developing \s-1GNU\s0 and promoting software freedom.\*(R"