Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mmap() versus read() and embedded systems. | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:29:38 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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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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