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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:50:46 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
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Noel Chiappa scripsit:

> The C compiler is linked with the -n flag, which produces pure code. What
> the linker documentation doesn't say (and I never realized this 'back in the
> day') is that when this option is used, it rounds up the size of the text
> segment to the nearest click (0100).

Yeah, that makes sense.  Without -n, the .data segment starts right at
the top of .text, but you can't do that if you are going to share
.text but not .data.  So it's painless to round up the size of .text
so that .data starts at a memory protection boundary.

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