Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:20:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse <cyouse@artemis.syncom.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, reilly@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980902081753.7435A-100000@artemis.syncom.net> In-Reply-To: <199809020743.RAA14655@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> 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. How is this handled on non-segmented architectures? I realize that FreeBSD's target has always been i386, but this would indeed be a complicated matter on say, a Sparc. Chuck Youse cyouse@syncom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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