From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011024105212.21151I-100000@is>
References: <20011023233450.09F855E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00312.html

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