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SubjectRe: mmap() versus read() and embedded systems.
DateFri, 13 Mar 1998 15:29:38 +0000
FromDavid Woodhouse <>
ralf@uni-koblenz.de said:
>  That's what PIC code is required for ELF DSOs on most architectures.
> The Intel code would use large amounts of memory for trying to build
> DSOs without using PIC for them.  Other architectures are even less
> forgiving.

> A small amount of RAM is used for PLT and GOT when using PIC code but
> the win in memory by sharing code exceeds it.  Aside of that many
> glibc programs will pull a second, shared copy of libc into memory via
> the NSS stuff, anyway, so the DSOs are out there to assimilate you
> anyway ;-) 

OK. PIC has to be Position Independent Code?
    ELF  I can't remember but I know what it is.

WTF do the rest of the TLAs mean? 

:)

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