Re: some thoughts..

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> It is. It only loads pages of code if needed. (The problem with ELF is
> that it needs to patch code pages, so some code pages aren't reloadable
> from the binary, but still, these pages eventually land in the swap.)

This is not correct.

ELF binaries *ONLY* modify the .got and .plt sections.  There is a
special case (when you link a non-PIC library into a PIC library) when
patching is required, but so far, I have only seen that happen twice.

Miguel.