[commit] Prefer xfer_partial for memory xfers

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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