Re: Program header proposal

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com> writes:

|> Hi,
|> Andreas Kromke (MagiC) made a proposal which requires the allocation of a 
|> new status bit in the program header:

|> Currently the kernel has to allocate the largest (or "a large") memory block 
|> when starting a new process. However, in most cases, the startup code will 
|> immediately shrink it to sizeof (basepage) + sizeof (text segment) + sizeof 
|> (data segment) + sizeof (bss).

Actually, in most cases (eg. MiNTlibs) this figure includes sizeof (stack),
which is impossible for the kernel to guess reliably.

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