Re: [MiNT] Alignment 2

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>]

Hello!

> Question 2: Does Pexec load the executables at an address multiple of 4 ? In 
> other words, is the .text segment long aligned in memory ?

Hehe, what do you think how the kernel manage the memory ... It don't 
waste it's time to manage 50 byte blocks, that's application area (e.g. 
MiNTLib malloc()/free()). The kernel manage big memory chunks, e.g. the 
smallest block you get from kernel by Mxalloc() is the system page size (8 
kb [except 68000 CPU where it is 512 byte]).

I don't looked at the code but I would assume that the Pexec loader load 
the code aligned into the memory block (the memory block is page aligned 
for sure).


Regards,
Frank

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