13 May
2014
13 May
'14
1:50 a.m.
Noel Chiappa scripsit:
The C compiler is linked with the -n flag, which
produces pure code. What
the linker documentation doesn't say (and I never realized this 'back in the
day') is that when this option is used, it rounds up the size of the text
segment to the nearest click (0100).
Yeah, that makes sense. Without -n, the .data segment starts right at
the top of .text, but you can't do that if you are going to share
.text but not .data. So it's painless to round up the size of .text
so that .data starts at a memory protection boundary.
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