On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:49:27PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:

 > For some reason our shared libraries on mips have a text start address
 > of something around 0x5ffe0000.  The only reference I found to that
 > number seems to be IRIX related, but it's been a long time since
 > I did the research.  Mips was the only arch in GNU ld to even use
 > SHLIB_TEXT_START_ADDR.  I've been running with this since January this
 > year with no known side effects - all the shared libraries load above
 > 0x20000000 anyway.
 > 
 > Anyone see anything bad in committing this?

No, in fact, seems good, because it will allow our VM system to more
intelligently place the libraries.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>