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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: partial symbol table address range generalization
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 01:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011024105212.21151I-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023233450.09F855E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jim Blandy wrote:

> I'd like to change GDB's `struct partial_symtab' structure to cover an
> arbitrary set of addresses, not just a single contiguous span of
> addresses.  I've written code for a `struct addrset' datatype
> (essentially a linked list of ranges) and provided some functions to
> make it easy and robust to work with.  I'd like to gradually wean the
> partial symbol table code away from the textlow/texthigh
> representation, and have it use an addrset to represent a partial
> symbol table's coverage.

Please consider writing something about this for gdbint.texinfo,
eventually.  The GDB symbol table facilities and algorithms are
notoriously underdocumented at the moment, IMHO.

TIA


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 16:33 Jim Blandy
2001-10-23 16:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]   ` <npsnc965cl.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
2001-10-23 21:42     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-24 17:08       ` Jim Blandy
2001-10-24 17:39         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-24  1:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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