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Re: Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- To: Colin McCormack <colin at field dot medicine dot adelaide dot edu dot au>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:32:28 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20000403040640.9113C2F04B@sharedtech.eyep.net>
Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au> writes:
|> 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.
And where do you put the stack?
Andreas.
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