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Re: armelf ldscript :


On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:47:37AM +0900, I.S.Kuten wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me why we are using 0x8000 as a start address of our code ? 
> Why this value ?

Non-zero so NULL pointer dereferences can be caught, and greater or equal
to the start of the next page in memory.  Page size can vary on some
architectures, so usually chosen at the largest possible page size.

Alan


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