Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:46:53 +0200

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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> My current approach is to reorganize the ELF file itself. This is
> naturally more complex, but it does take advantage of the typical
> assumptions made in filesystem layout algorithms. Unfortunately it
> does generate rather atypical ELF files (hundreds of loadable
> segments), and I think I'm running into bugs in the libc dynamic
> linker.

Just changing the Program Header table, leaving all the sections &
relocs alone then?

> Ideally this stuff would be done in linker with profile feedback, but
> this is an experiment to see what difference it really makes. I'm
> curious to see if all the mappings slows down runtime much too (which
> is really a test of the AVL code).

Yikes!

-- Jamie

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