Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:35:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, reilly@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF binaries size Message-ID: <199809020435.XAA03897@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809020221.TAA17213@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:21:07 -0700) References: <199809020221.TAA17213@austin.polstra.com>
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>> I think it implies that elf wastes a full page of memory (the space >> between the ':'s above) most of the time (unless the ':'s are on a >> page boundary), while aout only wastes an average of half a page >> (the space between the text ':' and the end of the page). > But a.out has a repeat of the same situation at the juncture of data > and bss, and ELF does not. Not to mention that this wastage only happens after a bit of data in the first data page is written to. Before that, it's being shared with text, anyway. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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