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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Cc: cagney@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [rfa] Add bfd_runtime
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041007151520.GA16154@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33c0rw1kc.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:16:03AM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Let me see if I've got this:
> > 
> > objfile - iterate over sections
> > corefile - iterate over segments
> > archive - ???
> 
> archive - iterate over objfiles
> 
> > So how would you solve this problem?  Given a memory access method and
> > a starting offset, construct a bfd containing a list of sections
> > constructed using both the segment and section information in the
> > inferior?
> 
> I would write a new BFD target vector; e.g., elf32-i386-runtime.

Ugh, is that really necessary?  It would mean architecture-specific
code to support this generic ELF concept, and I don't see any useful
hooks in the elf backend vector anyway...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-29 23:47 Andrew Cagney
2004-06-30  2:08 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-06-30 14:18   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-30 14:36     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-07-06 13:55       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-07-13  2:38         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-09-20 23:14           ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-21  0:57             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-09-21  1:38               ` DJ Delorie
2004-10-06 22:56                 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-21  8:38               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-06 23:22               ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-07  5:16                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-10-07 15:15                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-10-07 15:54                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-10-07 19:12                   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-10-08  2:04                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-10-07 16:48 James Cownie

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