Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Philippe Meunier wrote: > > > Anyone? > > Fixing a particluar issue is fine, but more important is an assessment > it does not break other things. In particular, does this limit the VM > for data available to any program (which is already quite limited on > i386)?
Good of you to point that out of otto. I am concerned about the impact this might have on binaries and shared libraries fitting, because of the i386 line-in-the-sand code and data seperation model for pre-NX W^X, binaries and libraries are intended to fit into 512MB seperation, and if they cannot, then the X line ends up being very high. Of course we all have NX systems now, so that should not matter, but we should still see if the layout actually works. We never investigated these edge conditions.
