From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 28 23:21:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04779 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA04774 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA06986; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:20:56 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA07568; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:20:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA02345; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:04:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607290604.IAA02345@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: -T appears to be a can of worms: To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:04:01 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at "Jul 28, 96 07:35:17 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ron G. Minnich wrote: > > You are not supposed to use -T loadaddr unless you know what you're > > doing... (e.g. when you're linking a kernel). > > 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. Btw., it's perhaps possible with ELF. Have you tried this? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)