RE: question for perl maintainer

RE: question for perl maintainer

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 08 July 2005 18:54

[Thread TITTTL'd owing to off-topicness rather than anything to do with
hippos]

> On Jul  8 19:46, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> What? Why?  OpenSSL uses another base address already in the Makefile
>>> (0x63000000).
>> 
>> Good thing.  I had problems using openssl extensions for MySQL and perl
>> together (half year back).  Is this a recent change or was it only perl
>> failing?
> 
> OpenSSL 0.9.7 uses 0xFE000000 as base address.

  That's a nonsensical setting, isn't it?  You can't load a dll into kernel
space[*], so AFAICS this setting just guarantees that it gets rebased at
load time every single time, instead of only when there's a clash.

    cheers,
      DaveK

[*]  Let's not get into the technicalities of how a .sys is really the same
thing as a .dll 'under the hood', shall we?
-- 
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Re: question for perl maintainer

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 11 18:27, Dave Korn wrote:
> >From: Corinna Vinschen
> > OpenSSL 0.9.7 uses 0xFE000000 as base address.
> 
>   That's a nonsensical setting, isn't it?  You can't load a dll into kernel
> space[*], so AFAICS this setting just guarantees that it gets rebased at
> load time every single time, instead of only when there's a clash.

More or less, though also a few dlls in /WINDOWS/system32 are located
beyond the 2Gigs border.


Corinna