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Re: [PLUG] ELF Init section
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:41:39PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:33:54AM -0400, Tim Peeler wrote:
> > That's a good point, speed would be comprimised by doing numerous reads
> > on the file, and that speed loss would be more than the 40 some odd bytes
> > of the header. But you do have to agree that it would make revisions
> > to the ELF format easier to implement. But there is also the fact that
> > any new revisions shouldn't really increase the header that much anyway
> > (what having to deal with 50 bytes instead of 40???), so I can see the
> > point of using the structured approach.
>
> I don't know that the ELF header does, but this is the reason that
> many structures within operating systems leave a few spare bytes
> around or reuse bytes differently in later revisions. (True,
> actually, even at the hardware design level.)
It does, it's got room for improvement; 9 bytes extra.
Tim
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