From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14080 invoked by alias); 12 May 2008 20:39:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 14062 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2008 20:39:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:38 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6E982C4; Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E1B98278; Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jveo2-0007i6-7G; Mon, 12 May 2008 16:39:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 01:39:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Snyder , Jan Kratochvil Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Ulrich Weigand Subject: Re: Overlay support broken (Re: [patch] [2/2] Discontiguous PSYMTABs (psymtabs->symtabs by addrmap)) Message-ID: <20080512203934.GA29605@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Snyder , Jan Kratochvil , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Ulrich Weigand References: <20080423213059.GC11894@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200805121945.m4CJjdYd031485@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <20080512203232.GA28415@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200805121945.m4CJjdYd031485@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <1210622804.4615.543.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080512203232.GA28415@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <1210622804.4615.543.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:44PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: > I wrote that overlay code over 10 years ago. > I wonder whether anyone still uses it? On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > I generally considered the overlays to be no longer supported and just still > not removed from the code. While reading other GDB code I was feeling overlays > are no longer supported on multiple places but sure I may be wrong. > > Could you please name which current arch is dependent on overlaying? As you may be able to guess from context, the answer is SPU :-) Each SPE has only a 256K local store which it uses for code, stack, and heap. That's not very much space, so overlays are frequently required. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery