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Re: glibc: loading of shared objects with holes wastes address space

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:01:42 -0400
Subject: Re: glibc: loading of shared objects with holes wastes address space
References: <CA+rthh_AeeVmEAotXy3M+ezqK9SOtydw4HBdeVtrgH9OJEPLGg@mail.gmail.com><20111014164237.4FB7D2C0D3@topped-with-meat.com>

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:42, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> A change that I think would be reasonable is to extend the PROT_NONE
> blackout regions only as far as the segment size rounded to p_align.

The gap is deliberately PROT_NONE so that the program occupies a
consecutive address range.  No change needed or welcome.

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