Re: portable dumping design issues
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:15:46PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
Olivier, what's still left that needs to be done for portable
dumping? i'm
getting concerned that there has been nothing done in a while, but it doesn't
seem finished.
The issues I am personally concerned about are:
- how to actually add the dump file to the executable itself
- how to predict at which address the file/executable section will be
mapped in order to pre-relocate it there
- how to prevent the GC to write over all the objects, killing sharing
- how can I find some free time to do all that
How come you didn't unify this with the structure definition
itself?
I have some problems with that. The main is that afaik it does not
handle structures-in-structures well, nor unions for the matter, or
everything that can be dumped as binary (no relocations) without
having to bother about it. Also I dislike the fact that we would go
even further from C, and end up with a mess of include files to
handle.
OG.