From: Chethan Palakshamurthy <pchethan@gmail.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regarding GOT table in PIC code
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAASvCC0XZ5A8YcQ4EzRP5jpVASKK1zQ2FFx0Xgix8PqZs_GZBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
>> 1. Does the dynamic linker map the physical pages for .data segments
>> such that GOT is at a fixed offset from code in logical address space?
>> is this true?
>
>Yes, it has to do this or it wouldn't be possible to find the GOT.
So, this method of paging is what makes it possible to share code
pages across processes? Several sources online(/books) mention that
PIC is the one which make code sharing across processes possible.
- Chethan
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 10:24 UTC|newest]
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2012-01-10 17:36 Chethan Palakshamurthy [this message]
2012-01-10 17:43 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-01-11 8:18 ` Chethan Palakshamurthy
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2012-01-09 10:47 Chethan Palakshamurthy
2012-01-09 11:17 ` Andrew Haley
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