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In article <7S31O_3xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> loader has been told that the distance (roundup) from data to bss is
>> 64K, and you've been marked shared text, and you'd like to load
>> on a machine with a 128K segment boundary, all the relocation in the
>> world is not going to help you.
>
>Sure it is. Nobody says that the different segments of the program have
>to be relocated at a fixed distance. You can have as many chunks of code
>in the load module as you can stand, and load them anywhere, once you have
>relocation working.

You deleted the first line which said this was a cased of a shared text
module. In a shared text module, the loader/linker MUST know the segment
round-up size, because after the exec() the text seg is going to be read
only.

If your data is in there, it's going to be hard to write it ...


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