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Re: RFC: Implementation of ELF sharable sections
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, generic-abi at googlegroups dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:53:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: Implementation of ELF sharable sections
- References: <20070104233146.GA31366@lucon.org>
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:31:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Here is one implementation of ELF sharable section proposal:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/bca08f6560f61b0d
>
> Several people have expressed interests. I post it here for comments.
> I used OS specific values. If we get consensus, I can change those
> values to generic range.
For Linux pleases don't put this into the ABI until the OS actually
supports this type of memory. Which I doubt it will anytime soon as
the concept is rather oddly defined and no one posted a kernel-level
design and implementation yet.