From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8673 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2007 18:01:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 8664 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2007 18:01:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from shell4.bayarea.net (HELO shell4.bayarea.net) (209.128.82.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:01:23 +0000 Received: (qmail 23595 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2007 11:01:21 -0700 Received: from 209-128-106-254.bayarea.net (HELO ?192.168.20.7?) (209.128.106.254) by shell4.bayarea.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 2007 11:01:21 -0700 Message-ID: <467D5FEF.7010900@eagercon.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:01:00 -0000 From: Michael Eager User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: What's an annex? stratum? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 Looking at target.c, I see some terms which are less than clear: annex and stratum. Could someone tell me what these mean? There is a mention of "annex" in the GDB doc, but it's not clear that this is the same as in target.c. This refers to an XML document and refers to gdb/features/gdb-target.dtd which doesn't exist. In target.c, it appears that an annex is an address space of some kind. There is one mention of "strata" in the docs, under maintenance commands. Aside: there are comments in the gdb code which tell me that the previous code did things badly and that the new scheme is better. Usually there's no description of the new scheme. I don't know about others, but I find these comments are both distracting and unhelpful. -- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077