From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12606 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2006 11:42:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 12598 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2006 11:42:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:42:44 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D8D28544001; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:42:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:42:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables Message-ID: <20060130114241.GN15572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060129233630.3EFA6690067@ns.hackrat.org> <43DDF924.3@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43DDF924.3@st.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00469.txt.bz2 On Jan 30 11:31, Andrew STUBBS wrote: > Eirik Fuller wrote: > >My immediate goal is to solicit opinions on whether the basic approach > >is sound. Comments in gdb/dwarf2read.c indicate the idea is not new. > >I first started using an approach similar to what's in the enclosed > >patch long before I noticed those comments; those comments finally > >motivated me to dust this off. > > I don't know much about mmap, so I'm not going to comment on the > specific implementation, but I do know it isn't available on all systems > GDB supports. E.g. Windows. It's available on Cygwin, so no problem here. As long as the autoconf test isn't the old one which makes non-standard assumptions. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat