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Date:      21 Jan 1997 17:09:31 -0800
From:      jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation
Message-ID:  <5c3pcb$gk0@austin.polstra.com>
References:  <199701201752.KAA15603@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199701212049.MAA08515@austin.polstra.com>

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I want to correct a false statement I made in my previous post.  I
wrote:
> So in execution, a.out wastes an average of 6K of padding, while
> ELF has an average of 2K.

I realized later that this is not true.  ELF double-maps the page
containing the boundary between text and data.  That wastes a page
(4K), making ELF's memory usage in execution the same on average
as that of a.out.

John
-- 
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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