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Re: mlocking dynamic variables
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Tiago Vignatti <vignatti at c3sl dot ufpr dot br>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:35:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: mlocking dynamic variables
- References: <469ED86A.1020606@c3sl.ufpr.br>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:20:10AM -0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> More specific, I want to put (or allocate) in a separate section some dynamic
> variables (which lives on the heap) to so then mlock() this on the physical
> memory. Any hint? A linker script does this easily?
>
> Could you, linker scripts experts, tell how to do this?
No, you can not do anything like this using a linker script. You
have to do it in the compiler or in your application by playing with
alternate allocators and alternate stacks.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery