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Re: mapping shared libraries at fixed address...
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Far? <fahree at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:28:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: mapping shared libraries at fixed address...
- References: <653bea160601172121k791c4a9dx@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:21:47AM -0500, Far? wrote:
> So as to be able to mmap BIG data files on i386, I would like to get
> the shared libraries out of the way. With no userspace specification,
> ld.so and libc.so are mmap()ed by the kernel at one third of the
> address space (starting at 0x55555000), which means that I can't mmap
> contiguously a file larger than 1.6GB approximately (less than I
That is what x86-64 is for.
H.J.