Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.

[Ulrich Drepper]

Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au> writes:

> Under i86, Linux, glibc maps itself to the magic address 0x40000000, and 
> dynamic loads grow up from there.
> 
> It would be more useful if dynamically loaded libs were to be allocated at the 
> very top of the available address space, and grow downward.

What does this have to do with glibc?

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