Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions

[Stefan Monnier]

> With the approach of dumping a C array containing references to
> offsets within itself, this is completely transparent to the
> application. The linker (ld) produces the right R_${ARCH}_RELATIVE
> relocation records in the data segment and the dynamic linker applies
> them at runtime.

Two problems, here:
- we're still talking about performing relocation of all heap references
  during startup (not that it's a problem, of course).  Maybe we don't
  need to do it ourselves, but it still has to happen.
- Can the ld.so loader generate the *tagged* references used in the heap?


        Stefan