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Predictive ELF bitmaps for old ELF filesPredictive ELF bitmaps for old ELF filesPosted Mar 27, 2008 5:03 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)Parent article: Predictive ELF bitmaps the linker should be taught to emit a new header type which would store the bitmap. It would be near the beginning of the ELF file, eliminating the seek. A problem with that approach is that old binaries would not be able to take advantage of the technique; a re-linking would be required. PT_GNU_STACK currently uses only .p_flags, and the default linker script has inserted PT_GNU_STACK for a couple years. So re-linking could be avoided in nearly all cases. Just set .p_offset to ALIGN_UP(old_file_size, 4), etc.
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