Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] configure: Drop adjustment of textseg

2020-01-07 Thread Alex Bennée
Richard Henderson writes: > This adjustment was random and unnecessary. The user mode > startup code in probe_guest_base() will choose a value for > guest_base that allows the host qemu binary to not conflict > with the guest binary. > > With modern distributions, this isn't even used, as the

[PATCH v2 1/7] configure: Drop adjustment of textseg

2019-12-18 Thread Richard Henderson
This adjustment was random and unnecessary. The user mode startup code in probe_guest_base() will choose a value for guest_base that allows the host qemu binary to not conflict with the guest binary. With modern distributions, this isn't even used, as the default is PIE, which does the same job i