Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:31:50 +0200 | From | "Francis Moreau" <> | Subject | Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso |
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On 9/16/07, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/16/07, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another question: is vdso going to replace vsyscall at all ? If so how
It's weird, because it seems that vsyscalls are only done by x86_64, all others archs have only vdso... so they seem to forget about statically linked apps...
> > are statically programs going to be handled ? > > Unfortunately the vsyscalls cannot ever go completely away. > Statically linked apps, the bane of progress, will need them.
Actually if we could easily retrieve the vdso in a process memory mapping (through a new syscall or /proc/self/maps), it should be easy for gcc/ld to statically links vdso functions into a statically linked app, shouldn't it ?
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