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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Aliasing text and data segments of a process
Message-ID: <7156@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 Jan 88 16:51:27 GMT
References: <202@sdti.UUCP> <730@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <730@umbc3.UMD.EDU> alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) writes:
>loads the .o file as data, and then branches to the start of the text area
>of the .o file

This cannot possibly work on an architecture that enforces the
distinction between Instruction and Data spaces.