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Re: precompiled header support
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:45:26AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:
>
> > Which led me to the following thought: can't the gc be (ab)used to chase
> > down all the pointers in the mmap'd area and convert them to a self-relative
> > form?
>
> Something with the same effect can be done, yes. However, no-one has
> yet implemented this because it would be slower and there's never been
> an example of a host which really needed it. (Maybe if you can
> explain more about your host, it might be the first example.)
This is "my" host: AmigaOS/68k not officially supported by FSF GCC. At
that system programs are always loaded to a random (== free) address by
the loader. Thats by design to not require a MMU and is possible because
programs have relocation tables to let the loader adapt the places that
use "absolute" addresses.
Thus I believe the current PCH doesn't work at that host, eg. ("text
segment moved"). What I would like todo is, disable PCH altogether to
prevent other users trying to use it which would happen regardless of
what documentation states.
Gunther