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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>,
	caml-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] THREADED_CODE: Why CODE32 defined on x86-64?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:55:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132167310.31678.161.camel@rosella> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B4E73.5020503@inria.fr>

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:21 +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> I would have expected the dynamic loader to implement the small model
> like the static linker does, but from what you say it's not the case.

The modelling constraints only apply to a statically
linked image. The reason is that the constraints allow
offsets for various instructions to 'fit' in the opcode.

Dynamically loaded *shared* libraries are accessed
indirectly via tables .. so it doesn't matter where
they're loaded. 

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 15:23 Richard Jones
2005-11-16 15:21 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2005-11-16 16:36   ` Richard Jones
2005-11-16 18:55   ` skaller [this message]

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