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Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:42:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use mmap for symbol tables
- References: <20060129233630.3EFA6690067@ns.hackrat.org> <43DDF924.3@st.com>
- Reply-to: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
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.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat