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In article <380@bambam.UUCP> bpendlet@bambam.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>My conclusion is that you've never heard of a relocating loader. I
>didn't say linker, I said loader. It is pretty easy for a linker to
>build executable modules that contain no absolute addresses...
>The back patching operation can be pretty quick, but it does slow down
>program loading...
>The point is that you can relocate programs at load time with
>no runtime penalty, no weird coding style for relocatability, and no
>MMU. 

	and of course the same thing can be done when a process is
	swapped out and reloaded later at a different memory location?

	a relocating loader sounds like only a part (the easy one) of
	the solution.  there's more to do than just loading the program
	the 1st time.

	Steven