mapping shared libraries at fixed address...

[H. J. Lu]

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.