glibc: loading of shared objects with holes wastes address space

Ulrich Drepper drepper@gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 15:38:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:42, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> A change that I think would be reasonable is to extend the PROT_NONE
> blackout regions only as far as the segment size rounded to p_align.

The gap is deliberately PROT_NONE so that the program occupies a
consecutive address range.  No change needed or welcome.



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