405 overlays

utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!day at RAND-UNIX utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!day at RAND-UNIX
Thu Jun 4 21:31:13 AEST 1981


There is a little-known less-understood
feature for text overlays in the V7 kernel,
where an exec of a binary with a 405 magic
number will bring in a new text segment,
leaving the data segment alone.  You know,
`chain'.

Does anyone have a version of ld.c that
can make decent use of this facility,
or is there some tricky way to get
vanilla ld to do what you want?

--dave




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