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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Unposted reserved_va patch
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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On 06/02/2010 09:54 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> Hmm, maybe. My reasoning was that this is consistent with the current behavior 
> of the ELF loader.  If you specify -G then the target application will be 
> splatted at that address, regardless of whether it's already used by the host.

Well, sort-of.  Before you removed PAGE_RESERVED we'd yield a
very cryptic error message about mmap failed and exit.


r~