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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Loading and Executing Object Code at Runtime
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.182925.15793@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 18:29:25 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.212704.7016@cec1.wustl.edu> <BZS.91Feb14044321@world.std.com>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <BZS.91Feb14044321@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>In theory you should be able to do this on any Unix system, barring
>hideous ideosyncractic restrictions

A quite widespread hideous idiosyncratic restriction is that on
some architectures, notably the 386, you can't execute out of data
space.  It's sometimes possible to work around it by playing games
with remapping memory, but only if you have kernel support (as with,
say, Mach).
-- 
               Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore                                 shore@mtxinu.com
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