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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/13
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In article <wccn1qaay08.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> writes:
> 
>> By the way, for some obscure reasons I used to know (but that I
>> forgot), the VMS linker never creates "demand zero" sections in
>> shareable images ("DLL" for users of dummy OS). They are turned
>> into "copy on reference" sections filled with zeroes. "Demand zero"
>> sections apply to executable images only.
> 
> Probably because shareable imaged need to be read-only?

Not for PSECTs with the SHR attribute.

Larry Kilgallen