On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:11, Blue Swirl wrote: > > Probably the linker is making sure the file offset and VMA are the same > > modulo the page size. > > But that would be one huge file, as the VMA is near 2TB:
I said *modulo the pace size* :-) Lets say ld thinks the page size for your system is 1Mb (nor an unreasonable assumption). The vma of .text is aligned on a 1Mb boundary. In order to allow loading via mmap, the location of .text within the file must also be aligned on a 1Mb boundary. It can't put it at address zero because the ELF headers get in the way, so the first viable location is 1Mb into the file. Paul
