perl weirdness

[Charles Wilson]

On 5/22/2011 9:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> while looking into memory collision problems, I noticed something weird
> in the perl package.  While all other executables are based at
> 0x00400000, perl5.10.1 and the a2p executable are based at 0x55690000
> and 0x55630000 respectively.

IIRC, it's because perlrebase (the script) includes those executables in
its list-of-stuff-to-rebase.

> Is there any reason to do so? 

Not that I can see, since 0x00400000 is supposed to be well outside the
range of any dll load address anyway.

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Chuck