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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] executable memory map
Date: Tue,  3 Jul 2007 11:05:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10707031105n508a5faflf7c8d8fc65c0bc20@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cccb85fdd879db4cb9fd4d010671d2c1@quintile.net>

On 7/2/07, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>         2/ Does the a.out file contain padding to ensure .data starts on a 4k boundry
>         or does the kernel's loader move .data (using memcpy() or MMU mapping)?

loader for a.out has to align the .data segment via move -- it is not
aligned in the file.

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02 19:55 Steve Simon
2007-07-03 18:05 ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-07-08 20:43 ` Russ Cox

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