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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jeff Dike wrote:

> My preferred solution would be for libc to ask the kernel where the
> vsyscall area is.  That's reasonably clean and virtualizable.  Andrea
> doesn't like it because it adds a few instructions to the vsyscall
> address calculation.

Sounds like the best solution indeed, especially when keeping
in mind the strange people who want to run with a different
user:kernel split or statically linked binaries at fun addresses
so they've got more space for their fortran arrays ;)

Rik
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