[Ltrace-devel] [Linux-Xtensa] [PATCH v2] xtensa: add xtensa support

Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Mon Jan 5 16:46:34 UTC 2015


Marc Gauthier <marc at cadence.com> writes:

> I think overlays map multiple sections at the same address, presumably
> the assumption is that overlays are not used in the context of ltrace?
> (They're not particularly useful with Linux, although one might imagine
> some use in uC-Linux, which we haven't much explored.)

Honestly, I haven't seen overlays used in practice, so this didn't cross
my mind.  Certainly in ltrace, we pretty much assume that addresses
uniquely identify objects.

Thanks,
Petr



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