Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:48:08 +0400 | From | Ivan Kokshaysky <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6 |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:26:59PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I had mentioned this to Richard Henderson a while back, when I was > > wondering how easy it is to implement -taso under Linux, and IIRC he > > seemed to think that linker tricks were much easier.
Yes, it was discussed on the axp-list a while back. After that I've hacked the ld for -taso, and it went into official binutils about a year ago. $ ld -v GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.91.0.2) $ ld -help ... ld: emulation specific options: elf64alpha: -Bgroup Selects group name lookup rules for DSO ... -taso Load executable in the lower 31-bit addressable virtual address range ...
> Note that personally I'm strongly against the -taso approach -- it's a > hack to be meant as an excuse for fixing broken programs.
Exactly. However, there are situations when you have only two options: rewrite from scratch or use -taso. Netscape vs. mozilla is a good example. :-)
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