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Re: [PATCH] On-demand loading of shlib's debuginfo
Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 20 July 2011 21:53:14, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:23:49 +0200, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> > With that in mind, we decided to tackle this problem progressively, and the
>> > first part of the solution is ready for submission.
>>
>> That is currently it still touches the solib files on disk for the purpose of
>> solib_map_sections so that will be a different patch, looking forward.
>
> I had skimmed the patch only, and reserved commenting until I had
> a chance of reading the patch carefuly and figuring it out
> myself, but since you raise this...
>
> Is that the reason then that svr4_match_pc_solist goes through
> the link map to map a PC to a so_list, instead of having a
> generic implementation that matches the PC to the so_list's
> loaded (bfd) sections (that is, just call solib_contains_address_p) ?
> If so, it'd make more sense IMO to remove that from this patch,
> and add it only along with a change that lazies mapping in the bfd
> and its sections as well. I'm not sure how safe that will be.
Thanks for the comments, both of you. After some chat with Jan, I have
decided that I will work on the second part of this task, i.e., take
care of solib_map_sections inside update_solib_list, and will only
submit a new patch when it's done.
Thank you,
Sergio.