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From: Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant@inria.fr>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading. Again.
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:24:20 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14887.46228.317525.40290@cremant.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A27A099.4EF5F3BD@ozemail.com.au>


>   The per process data lives at the same address for
> every process, but the underlying memory is swapped for 
> every task switch (at least, on the 486 this is done).

What about libraries mapped at the same address, or on overlapping
segments ? They could be loaded first by different processes, then
another one would want to use both of them and would not be able to
map both of them !!! You MUST have position independent code if you
really want your code to be SHARED.

- Fabrice

Homepage: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lefessan



  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-03 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-26  0:09 Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-11-28  1:27 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-29 16:42 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2000-11-30  7:02   ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-30 16:08     ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2000-12-01 12:59       ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-01 14:24         ` Fabrice Le Fessant [this message]
2000-12-01 16:49           ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-04 21:06             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-11-30 18:00     ` Chris Hecker
2000-12-01 13:34       ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-30 20:55     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-11-28 11:14 Ken Wakita

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