[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] Fix the remainder of warnings for the Windows build.

Zachary Turner zturner at google.com
Mon Jun 2 08:55:48 PDT 2014


Added comment explaining the use of size_t instead of offset_t.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D3944

Files:
  include/lldb/Core/DataBufferMemoryMap.h

Index: include/lldb/Core/DataBufferMemoryMap.h
===================================================================
--- include/lldb/Core/DataBufferMemoryMap.h
+++ include/lldb/Core/DataBufferMemoryMap.h
@@ -100,7 +100,12 @@
     /// @param[in] length
     ///     The size in bytes that should be mapped starting \a offset
     ///     bytes into the file. If \a length is \c SIZE_MAX, map
-    ///     as many bytes as possible.
+    ///     as many bytes as possible.  Even though it may be possible
+    ///     for a 32-bit host debugger to debug a 64-bit target, size_t
+    ///     still dictates the maximum possible size that can be mapped
+    ///     into this process.  For this kind of cross-arch debugging
+    ///     scenario, mappings and views should be managed at a higher
+    ///     level.
     ///
     /// @return
     ///     The number of bytes mapped starting from the \a offset.
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