Re: [MiNT] large binaries with MiNTLib 0.55.2

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

"Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

> > No chance of getting gdb ported?
> 
> You need two things for gdb: A BFD backend and the system dependent
> stuff for tracing etc.  The BFD backend is already there (in the
> Binutils), the tracing stuff can principally be taken from the old gdb
> port.  All that's left to do is to implement that in a current gdb
> source tree.

Ok, I might have a look, if I can find the time.

> > Yes, I agree. I haven't followed the SLB discussion here very closely,
> > but I agree MiNT would really improve with shared libs.
> 
> Neither did I follow.  But I think that there is agreement that the SLB
> technique is not suitable for a standard libc.

Perhaps not. Mmapping shared libs, as other Unices do, really requires
virtual memory too, with all that comes with it.

Sorry to hear about your TT. :/


Tomas