Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1

Posted Jun 30, 2011 12:55 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1 by dlang
Parent article: Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1

I am not sure if (with overcommit disabled) you have to allocate memory space for the entire binary or not.

You don't. Overcommit does not apply to read-only file-backed regions, because they can be dropped at any time without harm.