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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: vma->vm_end > 0x60000000
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
>> I think this is an old x86 load address for an ELF interpreter.

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> No, it is a leftover from the a.out times.  IMHO it should be removed
> completely.  "Library pages" has no meaning for ELF.

Enlightening. Are you willing to accept changes to the format?
Some other changes to this function have also been suggested.

I'll follow up with a patch that unconditionally returns 0 for
library pages.


Cheers,
Bill


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