This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [commit] Prefer xfer_partial for memory xfers
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:35:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: [commit] Prefer xfer_partial for memory xfers
- References: <415C3406.30801@gnu.org>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:27:50PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> + NOTE: cagney/2004-09-30:
> +
> + The old code tried to use four separate mechanisms for mapping an
> + object:offset:len tuple onto an inferior and its address space: the
> + target stack; the inferior's TO_SECTIONS; solib's SO_LIST;
> + overlays.
> +
> + This is stupid.
> +
> + The code below is instead using a single mechanism (currently
> + strata). If that mechanism proves insufficient then re-factor it
> + implementing another singluar mechanism (for instance, a generic
> + object:annex onto inferior:object:annex say). */
"singular". Stray "say" (don't want an interjection at both the
beginning and the end of the phrase).
Does this mean that a bunch of new code would have to be written to
make this compatible with overlays? How about solibs?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz