> On May 27, 2016, 2:03 p.m., Jason Lowe-Power wrote:
> > Does findSymbol now need to be updated since address can point to multiple 
> > symbols? Or is it OK for findSymbol to always return the first symbol?
> 
> Andreas Sandberg wrote:
>     I think the current behaviour (returning the first of the names we find) 
> is fine in all cases that we currently use it. AFAIK, we only really need to 
> map an address to a symbol for debugging purposes (e.g., when printing an 
> access trace). In those cases, printing multiple symbols is probably not what 
> we want. I considered adding a method that returns an iterator range, but I 
> doubt we'd need that functionality.

Seems reasonable to me. Could you add a comment either in the header file or in 
findSymbol to remind our future selves that it *could* return mulitple entries?


- Jason


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On May 27, 2016, 1:58 p.m., Andreas Sandberg wrote:
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> (Updated May 27, 2016, 1:58 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 11500:a1b6bb4bac2f
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> base: Fix multiple names to one address bug in SymbolTable
> 
> The SymbolTable class currently assumes that at most one symbol can
> point to a given address. If multiple symbols point to the same
> address, only the first one gets added to the internal symbol table
> since there is already a match in the address table.
> 
> This changeset converts the address table from a map into a multimap
> to be able to handle cases where an address maps to multiple
> symbols. Additionally, the insert method is changed to not fail if
> there is a match in the address table.
> 
> Change-Id: I6b4f1d5560c21e49a4af33220efb2a8302961768
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <[email protected]>
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> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/base/loader/symtab.hh 1f04f97c014d 
>   src/base/loader/symtab.cc 1f04f97c014d 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3485/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas Sandberg
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