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"GD" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

>> Is linking with the -taso option reliable?

GD> What *is* -taso?

>From the OSF/1 T3.2 man-page for cc(1) on our Alcor:

  -taso
      Tell the linker that the executable file should be loaded in the lower
      31-bit addressable virtual address range. The -T and -D flags to the ld
      command can also be used to ensure that the text and data segments
      addresses, respectively, are loaded into low memory.

      The -taso flag, however, in addition to setting default addresses for
      text and data segments, also causes shared libraries linked outside the
      31-bit address space to be appropriately relocated by the loader. If
      you specify -taso and also specify text and data segment addresses with
      -T and -D, those addresses override the -taso default addresses. The
      -taso flag is useful for porting 32-bit programs to DEC OSF/1.

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