Re: memory fragmentation by the loader

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No. I just installed and tried this program.
> 
> When I do 'prelink -v a.out' I get on one machine:

you'll want to pass --execshield if you're not running a fedora provided
kernel.



> 
> Does that mean the address to which a dynamic library should be loaded is
> written in the *.so file? I thought it is determined on runtime when the
> program is ran.

not when prelink is in use (as is the case in fedora)



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