On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Michael Hope wrote:

> Hi there.  The address space randomisation feature in 2.6.35 and above
> kernels breaks GCC's precompiled headers support.  GCC works by
> compiling the header once, dumping the internal format out to disk,
> and then mmap()ing it back in at a fixed address.

Oh my...  This is really nasty.

> The solution for
> other architectures is for GCC to pick a spot in the virtual address
> space that is likely to be free and map the PCH in there.  Most of
> them use 0x60000000 which from a bit of poking seems to be fine on ARM
> as well.
> 
> Can someone point me at the typical virtual address space for a ARM
> Linux process?  How does 0x60000000 sound?

The ARM user address space closely mimics the x86 32-bit user address 
space.  So if 0x60000000 works fine there then it should be fine on ARM 
too.


Nicolas

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