how to unmap first 64k for a.out ?

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:00:29 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

is there a way to build an a.out binary which has all the first 64k
unmapped and not only the first page (4k) ?

I need this to trap accesses to a NULL pointer with offsets up to 64k
and I can't build a ELF binary to test it... I tried using

cc -O -g -v -Wl,-Ttext,0xffe0 segv.c

with "ld version cygnus-2.5.3 (with BFD cygnus-2.5)" but every offset
except "-Ttext 0x1000" just killed the program at startup :-(

Thanks,
Harald

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