ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Operating Systems: Program overlay techniques
Communications of the ACM
Loader standardization for overlay programs
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Software-based instruction caching for embedded processors
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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IWMSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering
A performance model and code overlay generator for scratchpad enhanced embedded processors
CODES/ISSS '10 Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
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Many computer systems solve executable storage size problems for large programs by using overlays. However, it appears that no one overlay scheme contains a well-balanced combination of the most useful capabilities which are found in various existing techniques. A proposal is presented which utilizes several of the best capabilities from existing schemes and is complemented by several additional features, e.g. writable overlays. The writable overlay capability provides a virtual memory effect, although the programmer may still be required to design the overlay configuration. Since overlay structuring is a complex task, several tools (including a graphic display) are included in the proposal in order to aid the programmer in the design. The content of overlays is briefly discussed, and it is noted that many of the details of the final overlay configuration may be decided after the fact.