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RE: question for perl maintainer
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'oh no! a sensible question!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:27:22 +0100
- Subject: RE: question for perl maintainer
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 08 July 2005 18:54
[Thread TITTTL'd owing to off-topicness rather than anything to do with
hippos]
> On Jul 8 19:46, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> What? Why? OpenSSL uses another base address already in the Makefile
>>> (0x63000000).
>>
>> Good thing. I had problems using openssl extensions for MySQL and perl
>> together (half year back). Is this a recent change or was it only perl
>> failing?
>
> OpenSSL 0.9.7 uses 0xFE000000 as base address.
That's a nonsensical setting, isn't it? You can't load a dll into kernel
space[*], so AFAICS this setting just guarantees that it gets rebased at
load time every single time, instead of only when there's a clash.
cheers,
DaveK
[*] Let's not get into the technicalities of how a .sys is really the same
thing as a .dll 'under the hood', shall we?
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