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Re: gcj-security and some issues
Anthony Green writes:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 07:38, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > 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 was just thinking: shorter binary search, and smaller meta-data.
That's true, of course.
But: we're using the DWARF unwinder, and that has to locate the start
of each function on the stack in order to unwind. Once we have the
exact start address of a function, going from there to a class is a
small step -- a single hash table lookup. Bryce's idea of putting the
class in the unwinder data would make it slightly faster, because we
wouldn't need the hash table.
Andrew.