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Re: Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- To: Colin McCormack <colin at field dot medicine dot adelaide dot edu dot au>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 02 Apr 2000 21:16:17 -0700
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20000403040640.9113C2F04B@sharedtech.eyep.net>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au> writes:
> Under i86, Linux, glibc maps itself to the magic address 0x40000000, and
> dynamic loads grow up from there.
>
> It would be more useful if dynamically loaded libs were to be allocated at the
> very top of the available address space, and grow downward.
What does this have to do with glibc?
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