From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28727 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2002 23:47:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28719 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 23:47:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 23:47:13 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 184W93-0007iV-00; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:46:41 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 184VDl-0001Yi-00; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:47:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:47:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: David Carlton , Elena Zannoni , Jim Blandy , gdb Subject: Re: current namespace game plan Message-ID: <20021023234729.GA5916@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , David Carlton , Elena Zannoni , Jim Blandy , gdb References: <15789.43864.432576.737958@localhost.redhat.com> <3DB41A90.4070403@redhat.com> <3DB73276.5000108@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB73276.5000108@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:36:22PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > - eliminate all that symbol table memory mapping stuff > (Just remembered that this, last time, went into limbo) I really think, > if symbol table reading is a problem, then better/cleaner solutions can > be found - thinking about it, changing an already long sequence: > .c >gcc> .s >as> .o >ld> .out >gdb > into an even longer: > .c >gcc> .s >as> .o >ld> .out >gdb> .mmap >gdb > is like putting ``good money in after bad''. At present we're clinging > to it because it ``might be useful'' - just like so many of those > unfinished ``#if 0'' blocks ``might be useful'' .... Time to wield the > axe? I believe several people have said that Apple finished and uses this, and that it is useful to them. Which puts things in a different light. > None of these are directly name-space related. However, I think that > they help clear the deck so that you've a better foundation on which to > build namespaces. But I don't see that most of these structural improvements are necessary for the work David is doing... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer