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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:57:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -T appears to be a can of worms:
Message-ID:  <199607290057.TAA00731@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960728193226.19634B-100000@terra> from "Ron G. Minnich" at Jul 28, 96 07:35:17 pm

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> 
> Yup you're right it was pilot error. I needed to get the code/text/etc. 
> running up at a high address and thought that this might be possible on 
> xxxbsd or linux. No dice. I've used other os'es that let you do this, so read
> too much into the various man pages. ah well. I got to the needed 
> capability a different way. 
> 
Try mmap'ing the image in.  Our a.out format doesn't afford the
info for mapping the image with the existing image-activator
stuff, but mmaping an image and jumping to it -- must just work.

John



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