From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30757 invoked by alias); 28 Apr 2008 19:08:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 30684 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Apr 2008 19:07:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il (HELO mtaout3.012.net.il) (84.95.2.7) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:07:32 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.217]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K01006ALV3APMJ2@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:21:36 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:10:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: the "load" command and the .bss section In-reply-to: <1209407653.4615.303.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Michael Snyder Cc: vapier@gentoo.org, drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <200804270509.34308.vapier@gentoo.org> <20080427135600.GA9356@caradoc.them.org> <200804271745.37849.vapier@gentoo.org> <1209407653.4615.303.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 2008-04/txt/msg00642.txt.bz2 > From: Michael Snyder > Cc: Mike Frysinger , drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:34:13 -0700 > > I have not looked at this recently, but the last time I did, > there were several different implementations of the "load" > command, and they did not all behave identically, particularly > with regard to the concept of VMA vs. LMA. > > That's one reason it hasn't been well documented -- it is > not particularly well defined. I'm trying to establish whether there's something we could say in the manual about this that would be useful to readers. If there's nothing to be said about this issue that's generally useful, we can just say nothing.