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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: kludging up the page tables
Message-ID: <6198@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 21:11:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 21:11:40 1987
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In article <2416@ames.arpa> mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>We are needing to have shared common blocks ...

If you're using a recent UNIX System V (you didn't specify what),
then I think you can tell the linker to place the PSECT for the
COMMON at a specific address and make it shared, much like the
shared library transfer vectors are handled.  I haven't tried
this myself, though.