Address Space Creation Post-Loading

[rgood-zetier]

Address space generation is only available at binary load time (as far as I am aware). In a loader I am able to make the following call to generate an overlay address space:

program.createOverlaySpace(newAddressSpace, programAddressSpace);

However, createOverlaySpace is not available in the Ghidra scripting API. Is this simply because the work hasn't been done yet to expose it, or is there a deeper reason?

[ryanmkurtz]

What do you mean by it is not available in the scripting API? Can't you just call the same program.createOverlaySpace() method from a script?

[rgood-zetier]

Yeah sorry, this was user error. I assumed that I should be able to call createOverlaySpace directly in a script similar to how you can make other calls without importing currentProgram. After importing currentProgram I was able to do what I wanted. Thanks!

[ryanmkurtz]

Glad you got it working. The scripting API provides some conveniences, but the full Ghidra API is also available to use as you need to do more advanced stuff.