Re: Overlay support broken (Re: [patch] [2/2] Discontiguous PSYMTABs (psymtabs->symtabs by addrmap))

Ulrich Weigand
2008-05-15T17:40:27Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> Yes, I don't like that part either. I wonder if the memory usage
> would be too bad if we kept an addrmap for each section and one
> combined one for the non-overlay case?
>
> I don't know what overlay debug info looks like. Can we detect
> overlays in any practical way when reading in symbols?

Not really, I don't think there is any indication in the debug
info that we have an overlay. The address ranges just happen
to overlap ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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