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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:43:56 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: ELF binaries size
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>> I think it implies that elf wastes a full page of memory (the space
>> between the ':'s above) most of the time (unless the ':'s are on a
>> page boundary), while aout only wastes an average of half a page
>> (the space between the text ':' and the end of the page).
>
>Actually, it implies that the x86 architecture wastes a full page of
>memory, by not supportin byte-level protection resoloution.

Except using byte-granularity segments.

Bruce

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