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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Bahadir Balban <bahadir@l4dev.org>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>, 	binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Loading an elf file
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:48:04PM +0300, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> Here's an excerpt from the linker script we use, could you please
> comment on what's missing?

Lacks page alignment gaps.  Your hardware can't change memory
protection on byte boundaries.  The linker knows this, so if you mash
RW sections up against RE sections you'll get a RWE segment.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM