Re: Behaviour of the VM on a embedded linux

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Aug 24 2008 - 19:55:35 EST


On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:35:49 +0200
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is the application linked statically? If not, code pages might be
> mapped privately and have been written to due to relocation.
>
> Link everything statically to avoid this.

... static linking has severe downsides though. You can also just use
prelink to avoid relocations in practice.

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