From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19904 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2008 17:10:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 19896 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jul 2008 17:10:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.70) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:09:21 +0000 Received: from [68.108.140.244] (helo=macbook-2.local) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KGzdr-0007xn-MJ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:09:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4876423A.8050603@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Koning , andrew.stubbs@st.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Symbol tables for separately linked pieces References: <18550.7195.371436.629820@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <487622FE.8050209@st.com> <20080710150728.GA12544@caradoc.them.org> <18550.12532.359181.233284@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20080710161250.GA16503@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080710161250.GA16503@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940e187f48b7b77c31e5a5f8abd518586b9350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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: 2008-07/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:55:32AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > >> Maybe we should compare notes. >> > > Yes - once we're rolling on that project, expect discussion on this > list :-) > I'm kind of creeping on it now, mostly looking at symbol table code to get an idea of what to change. From the user point of view, it seems pretty natural to extend the source-and-line concept to be program-and-source-and-line with lots of defaulting, just as line number alone has an implicit source file. My chicken scratchings on paper tend to encourage the introduction of a fully general many-to-many mapping between inferior processes and objfiles, but I don't yet know if that is overly ambitious for this round of hackery. Stan