[Help-smalltalk] Re: How does linking work under Solaris?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Casper,

Thanks for your response.  I know that MAP_FIXED is dangerous; in fact the
starting address is picked by autoconf and not encoded in the program.
This approach fails only under Solaris -- Linux, HP/UX, and Windows
support it.  The address picked by autoconf on my user's system is around
0xef7....

What I still don't understand is: why isn't the memory where libc is
loaded protected? If I mmap an already mapped address, or if I mmap
below the brk address, the mmap fails.  Why isn't the same with libc?

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