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Forum: ARM programming with GCC/GNU tools The gap between RO and RW segments


von liang m. (Company: TK) (etarip)


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I'm doing something in memory lacking situations. When a shared object 
is loaded, there will be a memory gap between RO and RW segments. 
Running fromelf on a so file, I could get these:
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** Program header #1
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    Type          : PT_LOAD (1)
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    File Offset   : 0 (0x0)
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    Virtual Addr  : 0x00000000
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    Physical Addr : 0x00000000
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    Size in file  : 20468 bytes (0x4ff4)
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    Size in memory: 20468 bytes (0x4ff4)
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    Flags         : PF_X + PF_R (0x5)
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    Alignment     : 32768
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** Program header #2
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    Type          : PT_LOAD (1)
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    File Offset   : 20468 (0x4ff4)
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    Virtual Addr  : 0x0000cff4
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    Physical Addr : 0x0000cff4
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    Size in file  : 264 bytes (0x108)
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    Size in memory: 40608 bytes (0x9ea0)
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    Flags         : PF_W + PF_R (0x6)
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    Alignment     : 32768
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The gap is 32K (from 0x4ff4 to 0x0000cff4).

I've tried RVCT armlink and yagarto arm-none-eabi-ld, they are both 32K. 
And using Sourcery G++ arm-uclinuxeabi-ld, it's just a little bigger. 
When I tried arm-eabi-ld from Android ndk r5, it's only 4K. So I finally 
choose Android ndk r5 arm-eabi-ld as my linker to save memory.

But I couldn't figure out why there will be such a big gap. Are there 
any options to control its size?

Please help me out, thank you very much.

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