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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:55:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [patch] Speed up find_pc_section
From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,         gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ulrich Weigand<uweigand@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Section can partially overlap with overlays ...

Yes, the same thing also is happening on Darwin; some discussion here:
  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-08/msg00201.html

The thing is: when the assumptions are violated, (AFAICT) find_pc_section
couldn't have worked correctly before my patch, except by accident.

What is the simplest way to test overlays?

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov