Re: [Fwd: libpng shared memory patch]

[David Turner <dturner nds com>]

Behdad Esfahbod a �it :
> Note that even moving from .data to .rodata is desirable anyway,
> even if it doesn't result in reduced memory consumption, it does
> result in reduced relocations which is good.
>
>   
Behdad, could you elaborate about this ? I thought that relocations were 
only found on pointers,
and given that "constant" pointers in PIC code must be stored in 
writable memory to be fixed up,
I don't see why moving from .data to .rodata would result in any 
reduction in relocations ?

not to say that reducing the size of .data isn't desirable regarding 
page sharing though.

Regards,

- David


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