Re: [MiNT] large binaries with MiNTLib 0.55.2

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de> writes:

> > > Neither did I follow.  But I think that there is agreement that the SLB
> > > technique is not suitable for a standard libc.
> > 
> > Perhaps not. Mmapping shared libs, as other Unices do, really requires
> > virtual memory too, with all that comes with it.
> 
> I don't think that Unix style shared libs strictly require virtual memory.

Hmm.. no, maybe not. I guess it's enough if they're loaded into the
memory when they're used by at least one program, and if the program
can find out where it is. Something the MiNT kernel would have to keep
track of, perhaps.


Tomas