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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/usr.bin/gcore elfcore.c
Message-ID:  <199907172242.SAA24091@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199907171858.LAA74857@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199907171858.LAA74857@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   The map file is a terrible hodge-podge.  The fields that are used
>   mainly for kernel debugging should be moved out of it into a
>   separate file, so that the interface presented by the map file to
>   applications can remain stable in the face of VM system changes.
  
I'd suggest that the right approach is to go to a `keyword=value'
format for each line.  Then no matter what fields are used in some
future version, they can still be parsed correctly.

-GAWollman

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