The problem is that we're always computing the arguments to pass to
complaint, including passing the format strings through gettext, even
when complaints are disabled. As seen above, gettext can be quite
expensive.
Fix this by wrapping complaint in a macro that skips the real
complaint call when complaints are disabled.
This improves "gdb -nx -readnow -batch gdb" from
~11.0s => ~7.8s with -O2 -g3, and
~6.0s => ~5.3s with -O2 -g.
w/ gcc 5.3.1, on x86_64, for me.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2017-11-08 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* complaints.c (stop_whining): Make extern.
(complaint): Rename to ...
(complaint_internal): ... this.
* complaints.h (complaint): Rename to ...
(complaint_internal): ... this.
(complaint): Reimplement as macro around complaint_internal.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2017-11-08 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.gdb/complaints.exp (test_initial_complaints)
(test_serial_complaints, test_short_complaints): Call
complaint_internal instead of complaint.