From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:51:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:51:00 -0400 Received: from jurassic.park.msu.ru ([195.208.223.243]:34823 "EHLO jurassic.park.msu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:50:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:48:08 +0400 From: Ivan Kokshaysky To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Tom Vier , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rth@twiddle.net Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6 Message-ID: <20010607214808.A18298@jurassic.park.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <3B1E42EA.B0AE7F6E@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:26:59PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. :-) Ivan.