From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23190 invoked by alias); 12 May 2008 22:24:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 23182 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2008 22:24:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.33.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:24:10 +0000 Received: from zps75.corp.google.com (zps75.corp.google.com [172.25.146.75]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id m4CMO2dn013639 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 23:24:02 +0100 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wagm33.prod.google.com [10.114.214.33]) by zps75.corp.google.com with ESMTP id m4CMNGhx008515 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:24:01 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so3658365wag.9 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.112.1 with SMTP id k1mr8309809wac.24.1210631041305; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.254.4 with HTTP; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:37:00 -0000 From: "Doug Evans" To: "Michael Snyder" , "Jan Kratochvil" , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, "Ulrich Weigand" Subject: Re: Overlay support broken (Re: [patch] [2/2] Discontiguous PSYMTABs (psymtabs->symtabs by addrmap)) In-Reply-To: <20080512203934.GA29605@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080423213059.GC11894@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200805121945.m4CJjdYd031485@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <20080512203232.GA28415@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <1210622804.4615.543.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080512203934.GA29605@caradoc.them.org> 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/msg00389.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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 :-) Ah hah! :-) > 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. Yep.