Re: [MiNT] large binaries with MiNTLib 0.55.2

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 03:02:28PM +0200, Tomas Berndtsson wrote:
> Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de> writes:
> 
> > > > Neither did I follow.  But I think that there is agreement that the SLB
> > > > technique is not suitable for a standard libc.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps not. Mmapping shared libs, as other Unices do, really requires
> > > virtual memory too, with all that comes with it.
> > 
> > I don't think that Unix style shared libs strictly require virtual memory.
> 
> Hmm.. no, maybe not. I guess it's enough if they're loaded into the
> memory when they're used by at least one program, and if the program
> can find out where it is. Something the MiNT kernel would have to keep
> track of, perhaps.

I think the requirement is mmap and friends, not virtual memory.  And as
far as I can see it, that part of mmap that is needed for shared libs
could be implemented w/o vm.

Ciao

Guido
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