Re: Should mem sections have overlapping addresses?

2014-03-13 Thread Sam lia...@constrainttec.com
As a disclaimer I'm new to binutils, memory mapping and Cygwin covered in this post. I'm not sure if I first need to submit a bug report to http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ ? (I didn't find any "How to submit a bug FAQ" anywhere on the binutils home page) Let me also apologise up-front for

Re: Should mem sections have overlapping addresses?

2014-03-17 Thread Sam lia...@constrainttec.com
I very much appreciate your response Alan. This is very helpful and explains why Cygwin dumper gets in a bind as it assumes all CODE & DEBUGGING flagged sections are in memory. Thanks again, Sam On 16/03/14 20:40, Alan Modra wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:15:38AM +1100, Sam Liapis at cons

Re: Should mem sections have overlapping addresses?

2014-03-20 Thread Sam lia...@constrainttec.com
Hi Alan, Correspondence on Cygwin mailing list and further testing reveals loading differs on windows/i386 platform. i.e windows maps the entire file into memory even the NOLOAD sections hence the issue still remains. My original problem relates to a Cygwin dumper which traverses all sectio