Suggestion: cleaning up the address space.

[Andreas Schwab]

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

|> Hello,
|> 
|> 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.

And where do you put the stack?

Andreas.

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