Re: gcj-security and some issues

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Anthony Green writes:
 > 
 > If we're primarily interested in identifying protection domains, are
 > there some short cuts we can make?  For instance, can we just map .so's
 > to protection domains, and then simply identify which .so a PC is
 > associated with (rather than go all they way down to the class level).

I don't see how that would help.  We already have a efficient method
for mapping a PC address to a class, so going from there to a
protection domain is just one more memory fetch.  I assume that
Bryce's new stach trace code will not be significantly slower than
what we have at present.

Andrew.