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Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables

From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>
To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:45:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
References: <20060129233630.3EFA6690067@ns.hackrat.org> <43DDF924.3@st.com> <20060130114241.GN15572@calimero.vinschen.de>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Jan 30 11:31, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
Eirik Fuller wrote:
My immediate goal is to solicit opinions on whether the basic approach
is sound.  Comments in gdb/dwarf2read.c indicate the idea is not new.
I first started using an approach similar to what's in the enclosed
patch long before I noticed those comments; those comments finally
motivated me to dust this off.
I don't know much about mmap, so I'm not going to comment on the specific implementation, but I do know it isn't available on all systems GDB supports. E.g. Windows.
It's available on Cygwin, so no problem here.  As long as the autoconf
test isn't the old one which makes non-standard assumptions.

But not on MinGW, IFAIK. I'm sure there are other such systems.

References:
- [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
  - From: Eirik Fuller
- Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
  - From: Andrew STUBBS
- Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
  - From: Corinna Vinschen

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