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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to start a discussion on the various
techniques of relocation of data & code w.r.t to a non-O.S (no dynamic
linker) system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The idea is to compare different thoughts and bring
out the best possibility.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To start with,I myself know of a relocation
technique, as used by GNU toochians : The concept of VMA/LMA... We link the
code in such a way that we have a different execution address(VMA) and a load
address(LMA). All we need to do in our initializaton code is to copy the
data/text from LMA to VMA before we really start using the
data/text.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Comments are welcome..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rupesh</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>