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From: Jeremy F. <je...@go...> - 2005-06-30 20:07:15
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Julian Seward wrote:
>Suppose stage2 is statically linked, including the relevant tool,
>and is linked to load at some non-standard address, the latter as
>at present. Then there would be no need for stage1 at all, and no
>need for address space padding/unpadding. Is that correct?
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Pretty much. For usability you'd have a simple program to select the
right backend binary for a particular tool, and maybe for the
appropriate CPU type (so it can handle x86 and x86-64 in a
user-transparent way).
J
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