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Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- From: Colin McCormack <colin at field dot medicine dot adelaide dot edu dot au>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:06:40 +1000
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>,libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Hello,
Under i86, Linux, glibc maps itself to the magic address 0x40000000, and
dynamic loads grow up from there.
It would be more useful if dynamically loaded libs were to be allocated at the
very top of the available address space, and grow downward.
This would open up the rest of the address space for contiguous allocation,
which would be a Very Good Thing (TM).
Colin.