Re: amd64 process sizes

Just in case anyone is tempted to try this:

On 2007-Sep-07 10:28:08 +1000, I wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a technical reason[1] for not
applying the following
>patch to remove the 1MB "max page size":
>Index:
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/emulparams/elf_x86_64.sh
>========================================================
===========
>RCS file:
/usr/ncvs/src/contrib/binutils/ld/emulparams/elf_x86_64.sh,v

>retrieving revision 1.1.1.6
>diff -u -r1.1.1.6 elf_x86_64.sh
>---
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/emulparams/elf_x86_64.sh      
16 Jun 2004 05:45:40 -0000      1.1.1.6
>+++
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/emulparams/elf_x86_64.sh      
7 Sep 2007 00:20:31 -0000
> -2,7 +2,7 
> ELFSIZE=64
> OUTPUT_FORMAT="elf64-x86-64"
> TEXT_START_ADDR=0x400000
>-MAXPAGESIZE=0x100000
>+MAXPAGESIZE=0x1000
> COMMONPAGESIZE=0x1000
> NONPAGED_TEXT_START_ADDR=0x400000
> ARCH="i38686-64
"

For reasons I don't understand, this breaks Firefox and
OpenOffice.org
in 7.0-STABLE:  After rebuilding world and all ports with
this change,
both get SIGSEGV in ld-elf.so.1 whilst (or just after)
loading the
last .so that is part of the executable.  None of my other
ports seem
affected.

-- 
Peter Jeremy