Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:29:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: jdp@polstra.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, reilly@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <199809020529.AAA04166@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809020506.PAA02087@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:06:39 %2B1000) References: <199809020506.PAA02087@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Not to mention that this wastage only happens after a bit of data in >> the first data page is written to. Before that, it's being shared >> with text, anyway. > This page is almost certain to be written to. In all (2) cases that > I looked at, the data section begins with `__progname', which is always > written to very early by __main(). This page should be mapped writable > to begin with. True, I guess I didn't research that bit too closely. (Although it's actually written to in _start, not main, of course.) Thanks for pointing that out. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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